----------------------- Name, organization and contact details ----------------------- Name: Kunio Numabe Organization: Fuji Television Network, Inc. E-mail: numabe.kunio.cx@gmail.com ----------------------- Participant’s interest ----------------------- As of November, 2010, the number of household television sets in use is already exceeds 97 million in Japan. Since almost all digital TV sets have browser capability (based on XHTML1.1), a universal service using browsers on TV is getting more and more viable all over the land. Now digital TVs are taking the center of digital home networks, and it is expected that they will be used not only as a receiver for digital broadcasting but also as a central server for variety of entertainment and essential information for everyday life. Also it is strongly desired that TV sets will be better integrated with Web technologies, e.g., HTML5 and get even richer presentation capability. We believe our knowledge and expertise on digital TV broadcasting technology in Japan should be useful to this workshop and we should be able to provide various use cases based on our long-term experience. We are very interested in what kind of roles our expertise on digital broadcasting would play in the context of Web standardization. -------------- Point of View -------------- 1. Metadata requirements for smarter contents management, distribution and delivery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- W3C already has the Media Annotations, i.e. an ontology and API designed to facilitate cross-community data integration of information related to media objects in the Web, such as video, audio and images. The Media Annotations is a great work, but we believe that to extend it with the viewpoint of broadcasting will make it more fruitful because in broadcasting industries metadata form a large and complicated value chain, from metadata automatically created in digital video cameras (e.g. latitude, longitude and the information from gyro sensors) to delivered metadata to CE devices which provide richer user experiences (e.g. better presentation of contents and smarter recommendation). 2. TV and publicness --------------------- In case of natural disasters, usual infrastructures for communications like telephones and mobile phones might not be available. So providing disaster information is one of the very important roles of broadcasting as a public service. Although we decided not to make a presentation in the workshop, we believe that our cooperation with participants from many other countries and industries will make the workshop more fruitful.