The Metadata Working Group was formed in 2006 by
Adobe Systems
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and headquartered in San Jose, California. It has historically specialized in software for the crea ...
,
Apple
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,
Canon,
Microsoft
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and
Nokia
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.
Sony
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joined later in 2008.
The focus of the group is to advance the
interoperability of
metadata
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including:
* Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...
stored in
digital media
Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...
. Its specification
Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata defined the interoperability among
Exif,
IIM
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(old
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...
), and
XMP with consumer digital images. The following properties were selected for interoperability:
* keywords
* description
* date and time
* orientation
* rating
* copyright
* creator
* location created
* location shown
Test files for
verification were added in 2008 and are available fo
download
External links
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