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.
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> 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/
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> Danny
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> Subject: [MCG] IPTC / EXIF
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> 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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