Hi
It looks like ImageMagick preserves all metadata (incl IIM, XMP, Exif) which is what we want.
The preservation and passing on policy is something that should be planned overall for an organisation - clearly important data should be retained in an authoritative database (and this is where Collections Management and Picture Libraries sometimes have to work together). The principle is though that these databases should be able to selectively import and export data. (not an all or nothing scenario) Embedded data exported to the web and downloaded from there makes sense of the image to its recipients when it leaves the web site. Clearly a url link is a good idea (we are looking at this for IPTC) but in any case, some data is better than no data when an image 'escapes'.
Sarah
On 17 Oct 2013, at 12:30, Bonewell, Perry wrote:
> I haven't been able to look at this in detail but I've just discovered there is a plugin that supposedly preserves EXIF data for all images uploaded and processed in WordPress (including thumbnails etc - not sure about custom thumbnail sizes):
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> http://www.tuchesaufntish.com/2011/05/27/preserving-metadata-in-images-uploaded-to-wordpress-sites/
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> Plugin here:
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> http://wordpress.org/plugins/imagemagick-engine/
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> It does depend on having the correct server set up though (Image Magick being the prerequisite).
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> Has anyone tried this?
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