Re: xml in tiff headers

From: Bob Savage (bsavage@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 12:19:00 CDT

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Date:         Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:19:00 -0700
From: Bob Savage <mailto:bsavage@STANFORD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: xml in tiff headers
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

    <pre> From: Eric Lease Morgan
    >> Has anybody here explored the possibility of putting XML data in TIFF
    > headers?
     <snip>
    > Using this solution I could give away my TIFF files and allow other people
    > to use them accordingly. As one person has said, "Your TIFF files would
    know
    > about themselves."

    Another approach would be a standard XML TIFF-Wrapper which would include something like an "IMAGE" tag. Advantage: does not rely on software that can extract the header information before getting to the XML-encoded metadata. Disadvantage: not quite as simple to distribute (two files instead of one).

    Bob Savage Media Preservation Unit Stanford University Library

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