OpenSAMSN – Strongly Attached Metadata with Semantic Namespaces
Strongly Attached Metadata with Semantic Namespaces (SAMSN) is an initiative to standardise metadata frameworks and use embedded metadata standards like XMP to more closely link metadata back to an original asset in the same manner as barcodes do for physical goods.
Gunar Penekis is a leading advocate of SAMSN and explains the basics in his blog:
SAMSN is about establishing a foundational platform for enabling the media management industry to get to the next level of efficiency, interoperability and in general adding overall value to the integrating system(s). I believe there is an opportunity for optimizing digital supply chains through the use of metadata in a similar fashion to how the barcode revolutionized the retail and physical supply chains.
Gunar has established OpenSAMSN, an organisation that will promote the development of SAMSN standards. The group has gathered some support from Media Beacon and Adobe.
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