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DAB Content Annotation and Receiver Hardware Control with XML

Darran Nathan·Eva Rosdiana·Chua Beng Koon
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The Eureka-147 Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standard defines the 'dynamic labels' data field for holding information about the transmission content. However, this information does not follow a well-defined structure since it is designed to carry text for direct output to displays, for human interpretation. This poses a problem when machine interpretation of DAB content information is desired. Extensible Markup Language (XML) was developed to allow for the well-defined, structured machine-to-machine exchange of data over computer networks. This article proposes a novel technique of machine-interpretable DAB content annotation and receiver hardware control, involving the utilisation of XML as metadata in the transmitted DAB frames.

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Darran Nathan, Eva Rosdiana, Chua Beng Koon. 2004-04-11. DAB Content Annotation and Receiver Hardware Control with XML. https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0404026

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