The technologies specified in this document are description languages and vocabularies which describe sensorial effects.

The adaptation engine is not within the scope of this document (or the ISO/IEC 23005 series).

This document specifies syntax and semantics of the tools describing sensory information to enrich audio-visual contents:

— Sensory Effect Description Language (SEDL) as an XML schema-based language which enables one to describe a basic structure of sensory information;

— Sensory Effect Vocabulary (SEV), an XML representation for describing sensorial effects such as light, wind, fog, vibration, etc. that trigger human senses.