Introduction
Metadata quality is crucial for Mediabank functions and the performance of our client's services. Securing a high level of service requires a vast amount of valuable and structured metadata related to the media content. In addition, since inaccurate metadata causes unpredictable functionality and service deterioration, obtaining the highest accuracy level is essential.
Even a single asset requires extensive input from the user to meet the need for required metadata.
Rights holders challenge
Rights holders' ability to correlate and creatively reuse their vast media content directly affects their ability to maximize ROI. Handling large sports events, all the produced media content must be associated and structured without delay to enable efficient handling but also edited, and additional content produced later needs to be correctly associated.
User challenge
This article focuses on users' ability to manually add additional media content and relate it to an already existing event in Mediabank. (The event could be a soccer game or other sports event.)
- Manual input of metadata is time-consuming and often the source of inaccurate data.
- Do you know if the upload finished without errors?
- Is the receiving end aware of the new media content?
In short, the workflow must provide the user with a solution that minimizes the need for manual input.
AdEx solutions
- Using Aspera when uploading will speed up the process and guarantee that the transfer is 100% error-free. It even restarts when interrupted, works in the background, and notifies both sender and receiver when the upload is completed, enabling the user to work on other tasks instantly.
- Login to AdEx is the only login needed, independent of destinations.
- We are reducing user inputs to avoid human errors.
- Traditional drop-down menus provide valid metadata values with a single click.
- Conditional lookup, seeking additional metadata from external sources based on a minimum of input from the user.
- Event lookup within the Library to obtain the structured metadata needed, enabling the uploaded assets to be included in Calendar views or Collections.
How to use Metadata lookup from Events
This article describes how to use the lookup function to retrieve the required metadata from existing Library sports events.
- You can start by selecting the asset(s) destined for upload. AdEx supports multiple assets in one operation.
- Then, select a predefined destination with the appropriate scheme for event lookup.
- Click in the Tag frame to open the scheme. When the metadata is correctly entered, the "complete" sign appears. Not completed or started is visualized by three dots (...)
A default and configurable time range limiting the search area appears. Click on the calendar sign to choose from other defaults or make your time range.
Entering the accurate search criteria will narrow the search results, leading to the correct Event.
The valid search criteria are visible in the Event-search result frame, visualized with different colors. The search criteria are configurable. In the below example, the following search keys are valid:
Event, Sports Name, Event Date, Event Week Day, and Event Start Time.
If correct, then click the "select event" button.
- The valid metadata keys and values are copied from the Event to the asset.
- The user can enter additional values to enhance the search criteria further.
- Press "Done" when finished.
Note!
Suppose additional assets are destined for the same Event. In that case, clicking "Apply to all files" can automatically add the same metadata to all assets in the upload queue.
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