CreativeWork
The work being made: a film, episode, or another creative production. A package can describe more than one.
ONTOLOGY FOR MEDIA CREATION · 2.8
See the story.
Explore its structure.
A creative work, its world, and the assets that make it possible. Open a real example, follow the relationships, or check a package of your own.
YOUR PACKAGE, IN CONTEXT Local only
Bring a story package.
Select an OMC JSON file. Validation and browsing happen on this device; your file is not sent to a server.
Or drop a JSON file here · up to 10 MiBJust looking around?
THE PACKAGE EXPLORER
Opening the example…
asset-inventory-omc-2.8.json
Preparing local validation…
—Creative works
—Entities
—Entity types
—References
Checking the packageOMC 2.8 · local checks
The pinned OMC 2.8 JSON schema and local graph checks are applied in your browser.
These checks describe this JSON package. They do not establish physical accuracy, asset rights, creative quality, or acceptance by the MovieLabs online validator.
Schema and source identity
All entities are shown, including independent reference assets. A package relationship does not establish ownership.
Entities
Preparing…Every entity has a part to play.
Select a creative work or an asset to explore its identifiers, properties, and relationships.
USE CASE / THE INCLUDED STORM EXAMPLE
From a connected world
to a creative work.
Sail Straight Into the Storm imagines San Francisco as New Venice 2047. This explorer demonstrates how OMC connects that creative work to its narrative context, locations, depictions, and reusable production assets.
The Storm Is Coming shows an example creative output of those worldbuilding ideas. Browse the structure here, then visit the project site to see the world presented to an audience.
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE GRAPH
An open language
for connected stories.
MovieLabs’ Ontology for Media Creation (OMC) gives production information shared names and relationships. JSON is one way to carry that information between tools.
An entity is a named thing. Its scoped identifier gives it an identity. A reference points to another entity by that identity.
Read the official OMC documentation ↗Context
The circumstances that connect information—such as a narrative world or a production setting.
NarrativeLocation
A place in the story. It can be imagined or based on a real location; the distinction needs supporting context.
Depiction
Connects something in the narrative with the asset or participant that portrays it.
Asset
A resource used or created in a production. This example catalogs scenes, models, and supporting materials.
AssetSC
An asset’s structural characteristics, such as its file details. A file path in JSON does not include the file itself.
TRY A RELATIONSHIP WALK
From a story world to a scene asset.
Load the included example, select its CreativeWork, and follow Context → NarrativeLocation → Depiction → Asset using the incoming and outgoing links. The catalog also contains assets with no explicit link to that work.