The Metadata Working Group was formed in 2007 by

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and

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joined later in 2008. Microsoft proposed the idea in 2006. The focus of the group is to advance the

interoperability Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for information exchange, a broader de ...

metadata Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive ...

stored in

digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ...

. Its specification
Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata
defined the interoperability among

Exif Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other system ...

, IIM (old IPTC), 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
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* {{authority control Metadata Metadata standards Information technology organizations Standards organizations in the United States International organizations based in the United States Organizations established in 2006