Re: IPTC / embedded tiff tags & databases

From: Mark Jordan (mjordan@SFU.CA)
Date: Wed May 09 2001 - 10:12:15 CDT

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Date:         Wed, 9 May 2001 08:12:15 -0700
From: Mark Jordan <mailto:mjordan@SFU.CA>
Subject:      Re: IPTC / embedded tiff tags & databases
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    <pre> Hi Charles,

    Eric Lease Morgan (mailto:eric_morgan@ncsu.edu) has experimented with embedding XML (possibly RDF) in TIFF headers. I'm not sure what the status of his project is, but I'm sure he'd love to hear from you.

    Mark

    Mark Jordan Librarian / Analyst, Systems Division W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023 mailto:mjordan@sfu.ca / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/

    On Wed, 9 May 2001, Charles Lockwood wrote:

    > Hello
    > I'd like to hear from anyone with practical methods of generating browsable
    > image collections by which the metadata is called up directly from fields
    > embedded in the images themselves (e.g. file info/IPTC headers in .tiffs).
    > Especially non-proprietary methods. Seems like this would be a good approach
    > assuming the likelyhood of migrating to different systems in the future. Im
    > new at this, thanks for any experiential
    > or research based information....
    >
    > Sincerely
    > Charles Lockwood
    > Librarian
    > Enoch Pratt Free Library
    > Baltimore
    >

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