On 2016-05-25 9:40 AM, James Morley wrote:
> Hi all
>
> At IWM we're about to reprocess all of our derivative images for online display, which gives us the perfect opportunity to very simply upgrade the metadata we embed with images. Are there any guidelines out there for best practise with regard to embedding metadata? What is the best standard to use, what minimum fields etc?
James,
IPTC [1] has recently added some cultural heritage-oriented data
fields. There is a toolkit to help import data into this framework [2]
(which I haven't tried, but which is more recent than the discussion on
this topic last June).
Richard
[1] https://iptc.org/standards/photo-metadata/iptc-standard/
[2]
http://metadatadeluxe.pbworks.com/w/page/101139784/IPTC%20Cultural%20Heritage%20Tools
>
> Also, is there any form of digital watermarking that has any practical use, at least so that I have the right answers when asked!
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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