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Home My Photo Blog (Moblog) Observations Java Hot Products Books/Knowledge Devices Operators Mobile Messaging My Courses My Profile My ideas/thoughts Techno Vision Blogroll Me! Join Paul's mail list	Thursday, June 19, 2003   :: Annotating MMS :: Following on from my previous posting on annotating MMS messages left hanging in space ("Splash Messaging") - the relevant 3GPP spec for MMS support confirms that SVG is a valid media object to link to in a SMIL file. The 3GPP MMS uses a subset of SMIL 2.0 as format of the scene description. MMS clients and servers with support for scene descriptions shall support the 3GPP PSS5 SMIL Language Profile. Clause 5.4 mentions valid MIME types for media objects within SMIL and SVG is mentioned. Clause 7.7 elaborates that "The SVG Tiny profile shall be supported". So on the surface, it seems that scribbling all over a picture could be supported by MMS, if the producer software allowed it. As an aside, it is noted that Timed Text efforts of the W3C mention a mechanism for annotating video, or at least for providing the synchronisation mechanism for doing so. This makes for interesting possibilities too, and SVG is one way of annotating a video sequence at various chosen frames (or across frames). All we need now is the semantics for describing who's in the picture along with where the picture was taken. This is not part of the MMS spec, but embedded XML could be one approach, once the suitable semantic form has been selected - could be POIX and something like vCards (in XML/RDF) combined with FOAF.   2:23:02 AM    comment []   © Copyright 2003 Paul Golding. Last update: 7/11/2003; 10:00:15 AM.	June 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30           May   Jul Sign up to my email list - Send me email Available for hire as consultant via Magic E Company who can also develop software for you. Consult my booklist on Amazon Blogroll: