Jeffery's Exif Viewer is very good. On Firefox you can add the plugin to your button bar for one-click viewing.
http://regex.info/exif.cgi
Embedded MetaData Explorer has a nice UI
http://embedmydata.com/
Greg Reser
UC San Diego Library
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ben Rubinstein
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 2:29 PM
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Subject: Re: IPTC / EXIF
Hi Mike,
The National Portrait Gallery embed half a dozen IPTC fields concerned with title, caption, 'instructions', copyright etc into all the images for their online collection (but not images published through the CMS), on top of whatever data comes from the image production chain.
We implemented this six+ years ago, and I don't know whether there's ever been evidence about how useful it is. But (once there's an automated pipeline
anyway) I don't think it adds much effort to the process, and I think it comes into the category of why wouldn't you do this? (Obviously, I don't speak for the NPG.)
(On a related topic - there's an excellent extension for Firefox, "FxIF", which (in spite of the name) puts the IPTC data of any image a right-click away. On Chrome I've only been able to find extensions which read the EXIF data, nothing that reports IPTC data - does anyone have a recommendation?)
Ben
On 04/06/2015 10:33, Mike Ellis wrote:
> 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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