In this context, Isabella Kirton & Melissa Terras did a really interesting MW paper a couple of years ago about tracking digitised CH images -- they used TinEye, don't think metadata was involved at all.
http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/where-do-images-of-art-go-once-they-go-online-a-reverse-image-lookup-study-to-assess-the-dissemination-of-digitized-cultural-heritage/
Danny
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Subject: [MCG] IPTC / EXIF
Hi all
Does anyone bother embedding museumy IPTC / EXIF data into (collections) images as part of their digitisation workflow?
If so, why? I'd suspect that a "so that people knew where the image came from" reason may be one - but in reality do people actually _know_ about this data in order to get back to the source organisation? Or are tools like Google "upload an image" search or TinEye actually more used?
Also - given that there is evidence that almost all social media sites strip out some or all of this data, is it still worthwhile?
(http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/socialmedia/)
cheers!
Mike
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