A TV digital assets interchange framework based on emerging standards

This paper presents a work consisting in the design of a framework for interconnecting parties in a TV market, facilitating the interchange of digital assets between TV producers and broadcasters, content aggregators, educational institutions or other kind of organisations over the Internet. The framework is based on the combination of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting with the new standard from MPEG, the MPEG Query Format (MPQF). Regarding Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues, the paper suggests using the rights expression language MPEG-21 REL to define the business models between distributors and broadcasters.