
	Welcome to the download page for the MIC/ViDe MPEG-7 application profile.

	This application profile provides MPEG-7 description for multimedia materials: audio, audiovisual (video+audio), image and video materials.

	This application profile also fully maps and supports round trip mapping from MPEG-7 to Dublin Core. A metadata creator may enter metadata through the MPEG-7 or the Dublin Core view, and export the metadata as either MPEG-7 or Dublin Core simple for OAI, in XML.

	This application profile was developed by the ViDe Video Access Working Group, in collaboration with the MIC development team at Rutgers University. It is intended to serve as a cataloging utility for the moving image community, to export records into the MIC union catalog. It is also freely offered to anyone with an interest in exploring or using MPEG-7.

	A user guide will be available shortly. Currently, presentations and a Dublin Core/MPEG-7 map are available to assist you with MPEG-7.

	The MPEG-7/Dublin Core application profile was developed as a relational database in Microsoft Access 2000 by Yang Yu, database and applications developer at Rutgers University Libraries. Please address questions about customizing the database for your use to Yang Yu.

	Grace Agnew and Dan Kniesner, co-chairs of the ViDe Video Access Working Group, largely developed the AP. Please direct MPEG-7 specific questions to either co-chair.

	You are welcome to download the MPEG-7 database at no cost. We ask that you complete a simple questionnaire. We would like to ask anyone who uses the AP and/or database to participate in a follow-up assessment questionnaire and telephone interview. Participation is optional. MPEG-7 is in the very earliest stages of adoption in the U.S. as a descriptive metadata schema. We would like to evaluate its usefulness and the usefulness of the MIC/ViDe application profile. We would appreciate your support!