After Ben's suggestion I wondered whether the basic Windows 7 search function would find ICTP data. The answer is that it will, provided you click on 'file contents' which being Windows only appears after you have already run one search.
You can also type in the Windows search box using Advance Query Syntax eg:
Keywords:My search term
Author:My search term
And this will use ITCP info (unfortunately there doesn't seem to be something you can type that replicates clicking on 'file contents' and searching all the ITCP fields)
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ben Rubinstein
Sent: 11 June 2015 20:10
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Subject: Re: [MCG] IPTC / EXIF
On 11/06/2015 09:08, Mike Ellis wrote:
> Wonders: is there a tool for searching a whole folder / network / etc
> for embedded data?
Hi Mike,
(I've never used it in anger, had to track this down, but it turns out that) on MacOS, "Spotlight" (the system that indexes disk for searching) reads and indexes IPTC data.
From a quick test against an NPG image, it doesn't pick up all the fields, but it picks up quite a lot. It maps them to some more generic fields of its own.
In the Finder user interface, do "Find", ignore the nice easy search box, use the "(+)" below it, and from the options select "Other..." - and then see if you can spot the options that correspond to IPTC tags.
You can also access it on the command line using "mdfind" with syntax such as:
mdfind "kMDItemHeadline == NPG*"
mdfind "kMDItemKeywords == *music*"
(You might be pleased to know that the latter command, which I expected to find the test NPG image I was looking for, also turned up an NMSI image (from making the modern world) that I didn't know was still on my disk - which probably dates back to your days there.... when you were still a believer in IPTC?!?
best,
Ben
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