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Exif metadata
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2006-08-19 00:12:08
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:18 -0400, Rob Litzke wrote:
> There are tags for most of the information we want to
include
> ( ImageDescription, Artist, and Copyright), or 0x010E,
0x013B, and
> 0x8298, respectively. I think it makes the most sense
to include title
> and artist in their own tags and just use copyright to
link to the
> appropriate license.

I'd recommend populating it with a URL referencing a page
that contains
a copyright notice for the embedded file.  I link to a
license is nearly
worthless -- anyone can add such a link to any image and
there is no
telling who did it or whether the image is actually
licensed.

I've updated http://wiki.crea
tivecommons.org/Exif to reflect this.

> Perhaps also using the XP-specific tags could be
useful, but since
> they aren't part of the specifications, I don't think
they should
> contain information not in standard tags. I'll try to
include all of
> these in the ccPublisher Exif writer. 

I think you mean XMP.  There is another similar
recommendation, see
http://wiki.creat
ivecommons.org/XMP

You could also populate XMP if the library you are using
makes it easy
to do so.

> I don't, however, think that using the Comment tag
(0x9286), is a good
> idea. Software sometimes overwrites this, and I think
it should be
> kept clear strictly for comments. After all, there is a
specific tag
> just for copyright. 

Good point.  Comment sounds fairly unusable.

-- 
  
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer

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