Metadata Recommendations for Audio-Visual Language Data

The Metadata Recommendations for Audio-Visual Language Data provide guidance for assessing the quality and interoperability of metadata for audio-visual language data resources. The recommendations do not specify a particular metadata format nor do they require any particular serialization, as various research communities use metadata formats and serialization techniques that are established in their specific field which can differ from established formats in other fields. 

Any dataset that provides the metadata recommended in this document in a formally identifiable and machine-readable way will be considered compliant with these recommendations.

The current document Metadata Recommendations for Audio-Visual Language Data  contains the modules Generic Research Data, Language Data, and AV Data that specify recommendations for dataset level metadata for these respective aspects of research data. Metadata relating to other structural units such as data packages – also called session, bundle, or (speech) event – and files as well as metadata relating to more subject specific use cases are not specified in this document.