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This Standards Administrative Guideline forms an adjunct to the use and interpretation of the SMPTE Standards Operations Manual. In the event of a conflict, the Operations Manual shall prevail.
This administrative guideline specifies the structure of the standards document repository, which is the canonical collection of documents published by the SMPTE standards community.
The following keywords have a specific meaning in the context of this document:
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
No terms and definitions are listed in this document.
The standards document repository is collection of documents and suites .
A suite is a collection of related documents .
A suite is associated with the following metadata:
No two suites shall have the same root .
EXAMPLE ββ SMPTE ST 377-1 and SMPTE ST 377-4 belong to the suite of document with a root number of 377 and the suite title of Material Exchange Format (MXF) .
A document is a collection of versions .
A document is associated with the following metadata:
No two documents shall have the same short name, as specified at 5.3.2 .
When a document is part of a suite , the number of the document is the part number.
NOTE ββ The complete title of a document is usually styled as the title of the suite followed, if the document is a part, by the title of the part separated by an em-dash
The
short
name
doc-short-name
of
a
document
is:
doc-short-name = type [ root-number "-" ] document-number type = %s"st" | %s"rp" | %s"eg" | %s"ov" | %s"rdd" root-number = 1*digits document-number = 1*digits
EXAMPLE
ββ
The
short
name
of
SMPTE
ST
428-24
is
st428-24
.
A version is a document at a given stage and at a given point in time.
A version consists of:
A version is associated with the following metadata:
text/html
or
application/pdf
.
No
two
alternatives
shall
have
the
same
media
type.
version-short-name
of
the
version
that
is
amended
and
(ii)
the
amendment
number.
No
two
versions
shall
have
the
same
version-short-name
as
specified
at
5.4.2
.
The
short
name
version-short-name
of
a
version
is:
version-short-name = approved [ %s"-am" amend ] "-" stage approved = yyyy mm dd yyyy = 4*digits mm = 2*digits dd = 2*digits amend = 1*digits stage = %s"wd" | %s"cd" | %s"fcd" | %s"pub"
EXAMPLE
1
ββ
20230607-wd
EXAMPLE
2
ββ
20130107-am1-pub
The standards document repository contains zero or more directories, each corresponding to either a suite directory or document directory .
ββ eg43/ | ββ 20091023-pub/ ββ st377/ | ββ 20040922-pub/ ββ 377/ | ββ st377-1/ | | ββ 20110607-pub/ ββ 428/ | ββ st428-4/ | | ββ 20230628-cd/ ββ 429/ | ββ st429-2/ | | ββ 20110923-pub/ | | ββ 20130116-am1-pub/
A suite directory corresponds to a single suite .
The name of each suite directory shall be the root number of the suite , in lowercase.
Each suite directory contains one or more document directories , each corresponding to a single document .
A
suite
directory
shall
contain
one
file
named
manifest.json
,
the
suite
manifest
,
that
conforms
to
the
JSON
Schema
at
Element
a
.
Figure
1
illustrates
a
document
manifest
.
{
"root": 429,
"title": "D-Cinema Packaging"
}
manifest.json
of
a
suite
directory
.
All items of the suite directory , other than the suite manifest itself, shall be one or more document directories .
A document directory corresponds to a single document .
The name of each document directory shall be the short name of the document , in lowercase.
Each document directory contains one or more version directories , each corresponding to a single version .
A
document
directory
shall
contain
one
file
named
manifest.json
,
the
document
manifest
,
that
conforms
to
the
JSON
Schema
at
Element
b
.
Figure
2
illustrates
a
document
manifest
.
{
"type": "st",
"part": 2,
"title": "DCP Operational Constraints",
"state": "active",
"icsSet": [
"37.060.99"
]
}
manifest.json
of
a
document
directory
.
All items of the document directory , other than the document manifest itself, shall be version directories .
A version directory corresponds to a single version .
The name of each version directory shall be the short name of the version , in lowercase.
A
version
directory
shall
contain
one
file
named
manifest.json
,
the
version
manifest
,
that
conforms
to
the
JSON
Schema
at
Element
c
.
Figure
3
illustrates
a
version
manifest
.
{
"stage": "cd",
"timestamp": "2023-05-04",
"main": [
{
"mediaType": "text/html",
"path": "index.html"
},
{
"mediaType": "application/pdf",
"path": "SMPTE ST 429-16 D-Cinema Packaging β Additional Composition Metadata and Guidelines.pdf"
}
],
"elements": [
{
"title": "XML schema document that combined all schema definitions specified herein",
"file": {
"mediaType": "text/xml",
"path": "elements/st0429-16-2014.xsd"
}
}
]
}
manifest.json
of
a
version
directory
.
All items of the version directory , other than the version manifest itself, shall be referenced from the version manifest .
ββ 429/ | ββ st429-2/ | | ββ manifest.json | | ββ 20230628-cd | | | ββ manifest.json | | | ββ index.html | | | ββ media | | | | ββ figure-1.png | | | | ββ figure-2.png | | | | ββ figure-3.png | | | | ββ figure-4.png | | | | ββ figure-5.png | | | ββ static | | | | ββ smpte-icon.png | | | | ββ smpte-logo.png | | | ββ SMPTE ST 429-2 D-Cinema Packaging β DCP Operational Constraints.pdf
The following are the non-prose elements of this document: