Annotated Bibliography
Bormans J. and Hill K., "MPEG-21 Overview v.5", Requirements Group, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/N5231, Shanghai, China, 2002.An overview of MPEG-21
http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/standards/mpeg-21/mpeg-21.htm
This paper presents some of the motivations that lead to the development of the MPEG-21 new standard for exchange of multimedia digital contents. In addition, it briefly describes each steps of the projects from the very beginning to the development of a reference software.
Bormans J. and Rump N., "Part 1:Vision, Technologies and Strategy", ISO/IEC TR 21000-1, 2004.
http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc29/29w42911.htm#MPEG-21
| This technical report describes a multimedia usage environment founded upon networks that is encouraging new business models for trading digital content. It proposes a dual approach based on a problem statement and a solution statement. |
Burnett I., Drury G. and Van de Walle R., "Part 2: Digital Item Declaration", ISO/IEC 21000-2, 2005.
http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc29/29w42911.htm#MPEG-21
| This second part of MPEG-21 specifies the mechanism for declaring the structure and makeup of Digital Items. It describes the Digital Item Declaration Model, the Digital Item Declaration Representation in XML and XML schemas comprising grammars for the Digital Item Declaration representation in XML. |