Message-Id: <mailto:199502140517.XAA10800@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 14:15:41 -0500 From: "David M. Seaman" <mailto:dms8f@ETEXT.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU> Subject: Re: SGML Text Embedded in Image Files To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>> >I have several questions about the embedding technology.
>>
>> My experience is limited to textual data with news images and their
>> transmission. Its also conditioned by the pre dominance of the Mac in this
>> field.
>>
>> The standard tagging used is IPTC (International Press & Telecommunications
>> Council), which defines a series of records that describe the image(s) in
>> terms of the colour space, binary type, input device etcetc. The whole
>> bundle inc. image is an envelope. The earlier IPTC standard you will see in
Just to clarify -- does this mean that the text and image are physically one file?
>> use as basic caption data/text as part of the images bit map, invariably
>> cropped off any published wire pictures.
If it is not too much trouble, could you send to the list a sample of an IPTC tagged text record.
David Seaman Electronic Text Center mailto:etext@virginia.edu