Message-Id: <200105091551.IAA25756@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 11:45:51 -0400 From: Eileen Mathias <mailto:mathias@ACNATSCI.ORG> Subject: Re: IPTC / embedded tiff tags & databases To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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Charles:
The Etext Center of the Special Collections department at the University of Virginia uses headers. Check http://etext.
ib.virginia.edu/tei/uvatei11.html#sgml
for more information on how it is done.
Eileen Mathias
Eileen C. Mathias
Information Services Librarian &
Coordinator, Albert M Greenfield Digital
Imaging Center for Collections
Ewell Sale Stewart Library
The Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-299-1140
215-299-1144 FAX
mailto:mathias@acnatsci.org
>>> mailto:mjordan@SFU.CA 05/09/01 11:12AM >>>
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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