tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296319562011-12-13T07:02:23.820-06:00<small>A proposal by the Stock Artists Alliance for the adoption of<br> guiding principles, standards and technology to promote metadata use in images.</small>David Riecksnoreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-66025233730510555862011-12-12T23:20:00.003-06:002011-12-13T07:02:23.949-06:00

The embedded Metadata Manifesto picks up where the Stock Artists Alliance Metadata Manifesto left off. This new initiative takes a broader approach and encourages the direct embedding of descriptive and rights information not just into digital images, but all manner of digital media.“A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but permanently attached descriptions are worth a lot more as photos travel

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-83069911007437406302010-09-21T14:19:00.004-05:002010-09-21T14:33:05.550-05:00

The SuperUtils company takes an approach towards photo metadata that makes good sense. Rather than spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) about specific information in a digital image that some users might wish to keep private, they spell out both pro and con arguments for the removal of embedded photo metadata. It would be great to see more developers taking a similar approach.In our SAA

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-73938855706226097982010-07-15T10:59:00.002-05:002010-07-15T11:07:28.023-05:00

The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) and the Picture Licensing Univeral System (PLUS) have jointly developed a plug-in metadata panel for use in Adobe Bridge (CS3 or higher) which allow users to read/write the full set of fields included in the IPTC Core, IPTC Extension and the PLUS metadata schemas.Metadata are considered as being critical to the photo business as they are

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-12957447364400854972009-12-03T22:13:00.004-06:002009-12-03T22:52:04.534-06:00

The members of the Controlled Vocabulary forum are attempting to answer the question above (do social media websites or other image sharing services you use preserve your embedded photo metadata after upload?) by conducting a survey of the various services.When Social Media websites or other online services intentionally or accidentally remove metadata embedded in the images you upload, they are

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-53532992484568730702009-10-17T19:55:00.002-05:002009-12-10T20:57:59.705-06:00

The Metadata Working Group (MWG) offers a new set of tools and Test Files for download to help developers verify whether their applications meet The Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata. Having these files available for testing purposes is critical for developers that provide applications or services which handle photo metadata, especially if they trying to make field values interoperable

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-49172290900326262792009-02-26T17:00:00.002-06:002009-05-11T00:03:41.765-05:00

The Metadata Working Group recently updated their specifications guidance pdf ("Guidelines For Handling Image Metadata") to version 1.01. The original version was release last October.Go to the Metadata Working Groups specification page to download the latest version.

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-84945691013561045082009-02-02T20:27:00.003-06:002009-05-10T23:46:18.720-05:00

It was reported on the Controlled Vocabulary forum last fall, that there were issues with GPS data being lost when saving files in the TIFF format using any version of Photoshop. Fortunately, this issue is only with the TIFF file format, and does not affect files being saved in the PSD or JPEG formats (saving TIFF files from Lightroom does not suffer from this same issue.Just recently, David

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-39141623805469685742008-09-24T08:39:00.000-05:002008-09-24T08:45:13.391-05:00

A group going by the name of the "Metadata Working Group" made a major announcement at Photokina today and released a document that is designed to help developers by providing best practices on how to create, read and modify a set of core metadata values within digital images that use Exif, IPTC-IIM and XMP. The groups involved in this initiative include a number of long-standing digital imaging

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-69694983856662581662008-07-18T09:44:00.001-05:002008-07-18T11:47:49.940-05:00

The IPTC has approved a new specification of their Photo Metadata Standard. This includes the the slightly updated IPTC Core 1.1 Schema, and the the brand new IPTC Extension 1.0 Schema which complements and extends the set of IPTC Core metadata properties. Download the new IPTC specification to see the new options available, including a set of PLUS fields that are shared with the IPTC. The IPTC

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-72259265677439216142008-05-19T16:19:00.001-05:002008-05-19T16:36:34.689-05:00

Laura Cotterman has discovered that resizing images on your website using the popular server-side application GD can inadvertently remove metadata from your image files. As there are many widely distributed PHP scripts for image galleries which resize (or watermark) images with GD, this would create a lot of potential "Orphan Works" and Cotterman decided to do something. She wrote a couple of

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-84004358474509589952008-05-05T11:27:00.000-05:002008-05-05T11:29:46.700-05:00

On April 24, new draft versions of the Orphan Works Act of 2008 were introduced by both Houses of the U.S. Congress. The Stock Artists Alliance has published extensive commentary about Orphan Works, specifically noting the particular problems related to metadata and online distribution of images. They note that it is critical that copyright holder metadata be preserved to prevent images from

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-39886925325081310362008-04-29T23:13:00.001-05:002008-04-29T23:27:25.242-05:00

The draft specification "IPTC Photo Metadata 2008" is now publicly available for review. There have been some minor modifications to version 1.1 of the IPTC Core (released in 2005), however the new IPTC Core "Extended" adds a significant number of new properties which complement and extend the current IPTC Core. Download the draft specification document (PDF).The IPTC managing director has asked

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-50159219489426331932008-04-29T23:10:00.001-05:002008-04-29T23:12:35.992-05:00

Another handy tool to easily read embedded image metadata is a free Add-on for Firefox users called "Exif Viewer 1.40" that was developed by Alan Raskin. You can download this from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3905Many thanks to Janice Lodato, Director of Search Data for Jupiter Images who passed this on to the audience during the recent American Society of Picture Professionals

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-61002439420342363322008-01-17T11:47:00.000-06:002008-01-17T14:58:41.424-06:00

Not everyone has access to tools that allow them to easily read embedded image metadata, or to discern what type of metadata is hidden within an image file. However, thanks to Jeffrey Friedl, and his online EXIF metadata reader, you can now peek inside image files and check your EXIF, IPTC, XMP, etc. from within any web browser.There is no need to download or install anything. Your digital image

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-13819636848010496352007-08-14T14:21:00.000-05:002007-08-14T14:25:01.696-05:00

The U.S. Library of Congress has awarded the Stock Artists Alliance one of eight partnerships for preserving digital media. The partnerships are part of the $2.15 million Preserving Creative America initiative of the Library's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).These partnerships each address different aspects of preservation, to help insure the survival

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-44069295525933524602007-06-19T15:15:00.000-05:002007-06-19T15:21:08.831-05:00

The IPTC and IFRA held their First International Photo Metadata conference, titled "Working towards a seamless photo workflow" on June 7, 2007 in Florence, Italy.The issues discussed in the IPTC Photo Metadata working group White Paper (mentioned below) figured prominently at this event, which attracted over 120 attendees, and was held prior to last week's CEPIC Congress.The conference keynote

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-50032395267141913782007-06-19T15:01:00.000-05:002007-06-19T15:04:57.368-05:00

The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) released the Photo Metadata White Paper in conjunction with the Global Photo Metadata Conference held in Florence, Italy on June 7, 2007. The paper focuses on improvements needed to broaden the scope of IPTC style photo metadata so that it is more useful to those in the stock photography and image archive sectors of the professional

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-1169854279047567482007-01-26T17:27:00.000-06:002007-01-30T22:39:10.310-06:00

A first ever Global Photo Metadata Conference is being organised by IPTC (1) and IFRA (2), and will be hosted by CEPIC (3) in Florence, Italy on Thursday, June 7, 2007. This is the first time an international conference has been focused exclusively on photo metadata, and should bring together all interested parties in the photo metadata field, from the camera manufacturer to the photographer.

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-1163465402361374442006-11-13T18:47:00.001-06:002008-09-30T22:32:12.031-05:00

The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) has just published the results of their survey of various imaging software that support the two IPTC photo metadata standards—Information Interchange Module [IIM] and "IPTC Core." The specifics for 49 different applications from 25 different software developers are summarized on the IPTC PhotoMetadata page.

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-1161972249572914482006-10-27T13:02:00.000-05:002006-10-27T13:08:42.133-05:00

We applaud the International Press Telecommunications Council for launching their "IPTC Photo Metadata Software Implementation Survey."The IPTC has been at the forefront of photo metadata standards for more than a decade, starting when the IPTC's Information Interchange Model (IIM) standard was adopted by Adobe and others to provide metadata fields in digital image files starting in the early

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-1153972621092968362006-07-26T22:48:00.000-05:002006-07-26T22:57:01.100-05:00

The article, "Metadata Growing up" on the Stock Asylum website discusses the introduction by the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) of a Custom Metadata Panel for Photoshop that can be used by image distributors to to keep, manipulate and provide information that does not properly fit in currently available metadata fields.The article also discusses how PLUS and this Metadata Manifesto are

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-1153583006302992792006-07-22T10:38:00.000-05:002006-07-22T10:43:26.303-05:00

We congratulate iView Multimedia for reconsidering their decision to drop support for legacy IPTC metadata.When iView released version 3.1 of iView Media Pro, their application only stored metadata using the XMP/IPTC Core schema, and did not also store the metadata in the older, legacy IPTC (Image Resource Block) format. After receiving feedback from their users about how important it was to be

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-1153466166086854372006-07-21T02:14:00.000-05:002006-07-21T02:16:06.100-05:00

The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) has announced its active support for the Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) and the SAA's recently published "Metadata Manifesto." "Metadata is one of the keys to solving the current Orphan Works dilemma and is essential for the future of rights-managed photography," said Eugene Mopsik, ASMP executive director. "As the Manifesto states, 'Without

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-1153464809712701272006-07-21T01:51:00.000-05:002006-07-21T01:53:29.720-05:00

We congratulate Alamy.com on recently adding embedded metadata to all preview images on their website, as well as images sent out to clients after licensing. Stock distributor Corbis has been including embedded meta data for many years, however, it's important to note that these two are the exception rather than the rule. Having distributor information as well as other forms of rich metadata

David Riecksnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631956.post-1152823789710603062006-07-13T15:45:00.000-05:002006-07-19T03:44:39.150-05:00

To raise awareness about metadata and encourage its adoption, SAA has published a “Metadata Manifesto.” It provides guiding principles and practices for anyone who creates, uses, or manages digital images, as well as those developing supporting technology and services. Highlighting the efforts of international standards bodies and industry groups, the Manifesto stresses the urgency of metadata

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