{"id":15582,"date":"2008-10-19T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/10\/making-progress-on-metadata.html"},"modified":"2008-10-19T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T14:21:55","slug":"making_progress_on_metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/19\/making_progress_on_metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"Making progress on metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Although it&#8217;s not especially glamorous, metadata&#8211;information about files&#8211;is vital.&#160; Without metadata, files are like unlabeled cans on a shelf: you&#8217;d have to open up each one to find out what it contains.&#160; Adobe has been making some notable progress with metadata lately: <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>The company  has recently teamed up with Apple, Canon, Microsoft, Nokia, and Sony to form the <a href=\"http:\/\/metadataworkinggroup.org\/\">Metadata Working Group<\/a>.&#160; The group aims to drive standards &amp; best practices that&#8217;ll enable better compatibility now &amp; in the future.&#160; Metadata PM Gunar Penikis shares <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/gunar\/2008\/10\/metadata_working_group.html\">more details<\/a> on his blog. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Save for Web has been enhanced in CS4 to help photographers preserve copyright and contact info without adding unnecessary bloat to Web-ready images.&#160; A new menu (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/s4w_metadata.png\">screenshot<\/a>) enables fine-grained control over exactly what metadata goes out in a file.&#160; Special thanks go to Richard Anderson and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asmp.org\/news\/press\/20061102_updig.php\">ASMP\/UPDIG<\/a> folks, with whom we worked closely in defining the implementation, for their guidance &amp; for keeping us on our toes. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>File Info in Photoshop, Bridge, and the other CS4 apps is now Flash-based.&#160; Most people may not know or care (that is, you don&#8217;t have to do anything different\/weird because of this architectural change), but the door is now open to building network-aware metadata components.&#160; A newspaper, for example, could have File Info pull a keyword list from a central server, ensuring that everyone uses the same controlled vocabulary.&#160;Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/search_spring_graph.png\">screenshot<\/a> of an experimental panel the metadata team whipped up with Yahoo, offering related terms for each keyword.&#160; I look forward to sharing a mapping\/geotagging example, hopefully soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160; <\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>You can also use a Flash UI to read\/write metadata from a panel (palette).&#160; A developer could, for example, create a panel that reads license terms from the image, determines whether you still have rights to use it, and displays the photographer&#8217;s contact info. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>XMPScript, the XMP ExtendScript API, offers JavaScript access to the Adobe XMP Core and XMP Files<br \/>\nlibraries.&#160; 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