<P> In broadcast industry, metadata is linked to audio and video broadcast media to: </P> <Ul> <Li> identify the media: clip or playlist names, duration, timecode, etc . </Li> <Li> describe the content: notes regarding the quality of video content, rating, description (for example, during a sport event, keywords like goal, red card will be associated to some clips) </Li> <Li> classify media: metadata allows to sort the media or to easily and quickly find a video content (a TV news could urgently need some archive content for a subject). For example, the BBC have a large subject classification system, Lonclass, a customized version of the more general - purpose Universal Decimal Classification . </Li> </Ul> <Li> identify the media: clip or playlist names, duration, timecode, etc . </Li> <Li> describe the content: notes regarding the quality of video content, rating, description (for example, during a sport event, keywords like goal, red card will be associated to some clips) </Li>

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