Dedication

This manual is dedicated to Christian Dimitriu (1945-2016), whose contributions to the field of moving image archiving and FIAF, are immeasurable; and to Ronny Loewy (1946-2012), whose knowledge of moving image metadata standards was a primary and crucial source of information during the development of this publication; and to Laurent Bismuth (1965-2021), a passionate advocate of CEN 15907 standard whose extensive cataloguing knowledge and expertise and contributions in discussions during the compilation of this publication were invaluable.