NIEM Progression 5

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biom:CodecDetails

A container for descriptive information about the encoding of a digital media data file.

biom:CodecDetails holds other objects.

biom:CodecDetails can hold any of these following objects, starting with the most specific and becoming more generic as you move down the list:


biom:CodecCategoryCode

A CODEC used to encode a digital data stream or signal.

Holds code table entries.


biom:SamplingRate

A ratio of digital samples per second of analog data upon conversion to an acoustic signal

Holds numbers.


biom:RecordingBitDepthValue

A total number of bits that are used to represent a single sample of digital media.

Holds numbers.


biom:RecordingEndianCode

An ordering of individually addressable sub-components (bytes) within the representation of a recording.

Holds code table entries.


biom:NumericFormatText

A kind of numeric format that contains Integer and floating point representations

Holds text.


biom:RecordingChannelsQuantity

A count of the channels of data represented in a digital media data file.

Holds numbers.


biom:CodecExternalReferenceCodeText

A kind of code that contains the 'reference code' from the table of codecs available at http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/ansi_standard.cfm

Holds text.


biom:CodecCommentText

A comment to contain additional information about the codec or additional instructions for reconstruction of the original digital media data file.

Holds text.