[Metadatalibrarians] Exif metadata?

[Roel Muñoz]

Hi Teressa,

Some camera or scan software allows for including custom metadata in  
the header of image files. If yours doesn't or is inadequate, you can  
create custom fields in XMP via Photoshop (http://www.adobe.com/ 
products/xmp/custompanel.html).

If you have programming staff available you can write a script to  
grab this metadata for custom use, and of course you can use JHOVE to  
generate image metadata (MIX).

Hope this helps.

Roel

Roel Muñoz
Digital Projects Photographer
Princeton University
Firestone Library
1 Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-8010
fax (609) 258-4105

http://diglib.princeton.edu

On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Keenan, Teressa wrote:

> Is anyone out there using Exif (or something similar) to embed  
> metadata
> into image files?  Our archivist asked about doing this but I haven't
> been able to find any best practices associated with Exif
>
> I did find a nice overview Exif metadata here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format
>
> If anyone is using this are you able to pull that metadata from the
> image files and re-use it else ware?  Any thoughts on pro's and  
> con's of
> doing this?
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated
> Thanks;
>
> Teressa M. Keenan
> Metadata and Digital Production Librarian
> Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
> The University of Montana
> 32 Campus Drive (MMLA01)
> Missoula, MT 59812-9936
> teressa.keenan at umontana.edu , (406) 243-4592
>
>
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