Thanks, you lovely lot, this is really helpful :-)
In other, sort of related news - has anyone played with Google Photos yet?
Downside: giving all our images to the Gdevil
Upside: BLIMEY their image recognition is AMAZING. Sensing "don't need
metadata anymore" horizon in the none-too-distant-future...
tt
Mike
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Melissa Terras wrote:
> Thanks! yes, we didnt use metadata for that paper. It was kinda before it
> was easy to embed metadata - it would be useful to return to such a
> study... hmmm.... even to scope out who is embedding metadata....
>
> We're just starting to teach our students how to embed metadata - its only
> got really easy to do in the past little while?
>
> M
>
> On 4 June 2015 at 11:33, Birchall, Danny<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Mike Ellis
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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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