Re: IPTC

From: Sue Rosoff (foto_zelda@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 16:33:42 CDT

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    Date:         Fri, 10 May 2002 14:33:42 -0700
    From: Sue Rosoff <mailto:foto_zelda@yahoo.com>
    Subject:      Re: IPTC
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    <pre> In the project I am currently working on I don't often have the information I would put into the
    "File Info" area when I make the scan and before I burn a cd... only after I send the image down to another island and get my source to hopefully give me information would I have much to put in besides the image number - which is the title of the file anyway. But on other projects I have used "File Info" Sue

    --- Eileen Mathias <mailto:mathias@ACNATSCI.ORG> wrote:
    > Hi, all.
    >
    > I have been asked to say something about the
    > "File Info" function in Adobe Photoshop, in
    > terms of adding metadata to an image. I
    > thought it would be useful to take a poll. An
    > explanation of the "File Info", as found in the
    > "Help" menu of Photoshop, is as follows:
    >
    > Adobe Photoshop supports the information
    > standard developed by the Newspaper Association
    > of America (NAA) and the International Press
    > Telecommunications Council (IPTC) to identify
    > transmitted text and images. This standard
    > includes entries for captions, keywords,
    > categories, credits, and origins. The captions
    > and keyword entries can also be searched by
    > some third-party image browsers.
    >
    > Are any of you using this feature to manage
    > metadata? Why or why not? Pros and cons? (I
    > have my own ideas, but just wondered what
    > others out there are doing.)
    >
    > Eileen
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > 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

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