The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the world's first public service media alliance (PSM) with 117 member organizations in 56 European countries (34 additional partners in Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas). The metadata specifications and classification schemes of the EBU are updated under the control of the EBU's MIM (Media Information Management) and MIM-MM (Metadata Models) committees. MIM MDN (Metadata Developer Network) has extended its activities to new semantic technologies and techniques based on Artificial Intelligence.