by the Society of American Archivists, Photo Metadata Project Learn how to add photo metadata, like descriptive and rights information, to your digital image files using popular professional software with some help from our tutorials. You can read them online, download as a PDF, or view many as a screencast / video tutorial. Available…
by Chris Lacinak, President AVPreserve This article discusses the significance of embedded metadata and some of the challenges that arise once this understanding is realized. While the discussion ranges across media types and file formats, the focus is more specifically on metadata embedded in audio WAVE files. Available at this URL: http://www.avpreserve.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/EmbeddedMetadata.pdf
by the Photo Metadata Working Group of the IPTC Social Media Sites Photo Metadata Test Results We have uploaded an IPTC test image with embedded metadata and have checked if any of the embedded values are displayed and if so, which ones. As a next step we have tried to save the picture from a…
by EMDaWG (Embedded Metadata Working Group – Smithsonian Institution) This document defines the minimum proposed descriptive embedded metadata1 for digital images at the Smithsonian Institution. It also provides basic guidelines for the use of embedded metadata in imaging workflows across the Institution. It represents a consensus of practitioners across various units about how to better…
Knowledge Bank featured collection this month is the Jesse Owens Photographs collection. The collection currently contains 141 images – a sampling of the more than two thousand photographs from the life of Jesse Owens held at The Ohio State University Archives. The digital images that we archived in the Knowledge Bank all contain embedded descriptive…