Embedded Metadata

Greg Reser, UCSD

an explanation with real world uses

Where is that song?

Minnesota

mix tape

I love that song!

Images should be as easy to identify, search and sort as music

Getting Started

•How do you read it?

•How do you create it?

•What’s it good for?

How do you use embedded metadata?

Exercise

Download the test files(these will be used for all the exercises)

http://metadatadeluxe.pbworks.com/w/file/46749169/Workshop_files.zip

Exercise

Search for: “find me”

Search

File Explorer Finder

step 1 of 1

File Explorer - search

enter search terms

Finder - search

Images with embedded metadata can be a desktop database

File Explorer - customize

drag up

step 1 of 11

File Explorer - customizestep 2 of 11

File Explorer - customizestep 3 of 11

File Explorer - customizestep 4 of 11

File Explorer - customizestep 5 of 11

File Explorer - customize

change your view

More options

step 6 of 11

File Explorer - customizestep 7 of 11

File Explorer - customizestep 8 of 11

File Explorer - view

hover to see

right click

step 9 of 11

File Explorer - view

hover to see

right click

step 10 of 11

File Explorer - view

hover to see

show/hide preview

step 11 of 11

Finder - inspector step 1 of 2

Preview - inspector step 2 of 2

There are many ways to view embedded metadata

Web pageimages and metadata

Downloaded imagesseparated from the web page, metadata is lost

Images separated from their metadata loose their identity and usefulness

Exercise

Search for: “pyramid”

Search

File Explorer Finder

step 1 of 3

Exercise

Search for: “civil war”

Search

File Explorer Finder

step 2 of 3

Exercise

Search for: “Fort Richardson”

Search

File Explorer Finder

step 3 of 3

Simple - edit

Simple - edit

keyword inspector

add a keyword (doesn’t always work!)

Editing in the operating system is tricky

Neither Mac or Windows are quite ready

Exercise

Open file: EMwg-chicago_picasso

Photoshop

step 1 of 4

Exercise

Add Keywords:

plazas

civic centers

Photoshop

step 2 of 4

Exercise

Add Copyright notice:

Creative Commons Attribution

Photoshop

step 3 of 4

Exercise step 4 of 4

View NX2 - robust and FREE!

XnView - robust and FREE!

Bridge - customizable and FREE! (after Ps trial expires)

The right photo applications give predictable results

Technical tags

Image Width

Image Length

Compression

Orientation

Camera Model

Orientation

Camera Model

EXIFExchangeable Image File Format

CanonNikonFujiOlympusCasioKodakSamsungSanyo

Descriptive tags

Description

Artist

Copyright

Location

Comments

News Photos

The International Press Telecommunications

Council

•Preservation and seamless interoperability of digital image metadata

Extensible Metadata Platform

•Preservation and seamless interoperability of digital image metadata

• Interoperability and availability to all applications, devices, and services

Extensible Metadata Platform

•Preservation and seamless interoperability of digital image metadata

• Interoperability and availability to all applications, devices, and services

•Open source

Extensible Metadata Platform

file formats

Title San Lorenzo, Florence; Basilica di San Lorenzo

Keywords architectural exteriors, architectural interiors, rulers and leaders, Medici family, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, facades, Renaissance, Italian, buildings, basilicas, buildings, religious buildings, churches, construction (assembling)

Copyright Notice Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Caption-Abstract attributed to Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian architect, 1377-1446); Michelozzo di Bartolomeo (Italian architect, 1396-1472); San Lorenzo, Florence; Basilica di San Lorenzo ; Exterior, unfinished facade; begun 1418- ca. 1700 (inclusive); stone; marble; pietra serena; San Lorenzo; Flaorence; Tuscany; Italy

<rdf:Description rdf:about="" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <dc:title> <rdf:Alt> <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">San Lorenzo, Florence; Basilica di San Lorenzo</rdf:li> </rdf:Alt> </dc:title> <dc:subject> <rdf:Bag> <rdf:li>architectural exteriors</rdf:li> <rdf:li>rulers and leaders</rdf:li> <rdf:li>Medici family</rdf:li> <rdf:li>Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564</rdf:li> <rdf:li>facades</rdf:li> <rdf:li>Renaissance</rdf:li> <rdf:li>Italian</rdf:li> <rdf:li>basilicas</rdf:li> <rdf:li>buildings</rdf:li>

TIFF file

XMP RDF/XML<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?><x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="3.1.1-112"> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <dc:format>image/jpeg</dc:format> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about="" xmlns:photoshop="http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/"> <photoshop:ColorMode>3</photoshop:ColorMode> <photoshop:History/> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about="" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"> <dcterms:title>60s Era Frontstretch, Bristol International Speedway</dcterms:title> <dcterms:LCSH>Bristol Motor Speedway (Bristol, Tenn.); Motorsports; Automobile racing; Racetracks (Automobile racing); Spectators--

Tennessee--1960-1970; Grandstands; NASCAR (Association)</dcterms:LCSH> <dcterms:alternative>Bristol Motor Speedway, Frontstetch Grandstand</dcterms:alternative> <dcterms:date>early 1960s</dcterms:date> <dcterms:coverage.spatial>Tennessee; Bristol (Tenn.)</dcterms:coverage.spatial> <dcterms:type>Image</dcterms:type> <dcterms:creator>[unkown]</dcterms:creator> <dcterms:source>http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolmotorspeedway/4185490506/in/set-72157622855180803/</dcterms:source> <dcterms:rights>Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-

sa/2.0/deed.en</dcterms:rights> <dcterms:rightsHolder>Flickr user Bristol Motor Speedway &amp; Dragway, http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolmotorspeedway/</dcterms:rightsHolder> <dcterms:identifier>4185490506_582ff74a49_t.jpg</dcterms:identifier> <dcterms:description>At the time of this photograph, the speedway was called Bristol International Speedway.</dcterms:description> <dcterms:format>silver getatin print</dcterms:format> <dcterms:coverage.temporal>1961/1965</dcterms:coverage.temporal> <dcterms:subject>frontstretch, front straight, crowds, press box, announcer's box</dcterms:subject> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about=""</rdf:RDF></x:xmpmeta>

Exercise

Open file:EMwg-Schiller-2

Photoshop

Open info panel:File → File Info…

metadata

IPTC-IIM

XMP

Adobe

Custom

IPTC Core

Dublin Core

Exif/Tiff

Photoshop

IPTC Extension

Exif

Mixable schemasKeywords dc:subject

Description dc:description

Date / Time Originalphotoshop:DateCreated

Date / Time Digitized xmp:CreateDate

Date / Time Modification xmp:ModifyDate

Copyright dc:rights

Creator dc:creator

Location (Created) Iptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:WorldRegionIptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:CountryIptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:ProvinceStateIptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:CityIptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:Sublocation

Location (Shown) photoshop:Countryphotoshop:Statephotoshop:CityIptc4xmpCore:LocationIptc4xmpExt:LocationShown:CountryIptc4xmpExt:LocationShown:ProvinceStateIptc4xmpExt:LocationShown:City

Mixable schemasKeywords dc:subject

Description dc:description

Date / Time Originalphotoshop:DateCreated

Date / Time Digitized xmp:CreateDate

Date / Time Modification xmp:ModifyDate

Copyright dc:rights

Creator dc:creator

Location (Created) Iptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:WorldRegionIptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:CountryIptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:ProvinceStateIptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:CityIptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated:Sublocation

Location (Shown) photoshop:Countryphotoshop:Statephotoshop:CityIptc4xmpCore:LocationIptc4xmpExt:LocationShown:CountryIptc4xmpExt:LocationShown:ProvinceStateIptc4xmpExt:LocationShown:City

XMP file info panels share schemas

standard schemas

Metadata tags

Description

Artist

Copyright

Location

Comments

Metadata tags

Description

Artist

Copyright

Location

Comments

photographer not the sculptor

of the photo

Formed in 2006 focused on the following goals:

•Preservation and seamless interoperability of digital image metadata

•Interoperability and availability to all applications, devices, and services

Industry Standards Groups

Embedded Metadata working group

Flickrhow do social media sites use metadata?

Know what data will be viewable in the application you are targeting

Flickr Uploadr

Doesn’t embed your data, just passes it to Flickr

Bulkrdownload metadata from Flickr

Bulkrdownload metadata from Flickr

$30pro version

social media websites can help gather metadata from users

Exercise

Open folder:Royal Architectural Museum folder

Photoshop

Open:File → File Info…

step 1 of 2

Exercise

Info panel features

step 2 of 2

Exercise

Open folder:Weitz Center Images

Bridge

step 1 of 5

Bridge

Exercise step 2 of 5

Bridge

Exercise

Add:

VRA Work Site Location:

"United States"

Weitz Center Images

step 3 of 5

Bridge

Exercise

Bridge Metadata panel preferencesDo one of the following:

click Metadata panel menu → Preferences click Edit → Preferences

step 4 of 5

Bridge

Exercise

Bridge Metadata panel preferencesSelect the metadata fields that you want to display → OK

step 5 of 5

ExerciseOpen file “order6545.pdf”

in Acrobat Reader

right click - Properties

File - Properties

+ d

File - Properties

step 1 of 1

PDF

•Reader displays basic fields but can't edit them•Pro can edit fields and supports custom XMP panels

PDF

Some free PDF tools allow basic metadata editing

Workflow & Administration

Accession records

•Bibliographic info

•Production tracking

Custom Workflow Panel

You can track processes with embedded metadata

PDF files

•smaller file size than TIFF

PDF files

•smaller file size than TIFF

•stores structured objects

PDF files

•smaller file size than TIFF

•stores structured objects

•manage with embedded metadata

PDF files

•smaller file size than TIFF

•stores structured objects

•manage with embedded metadata

pdfa.org

Embedded metadata can be used for preservation

Semantic Web

Exercise

Go to:embedmydata.com

Websites that read embedded metadata

XMP is written in RDF and could be used by semantic web browsers

Nikon View NX2Get metadata from the web

Nikon View NX2Get metadata from the web

Nikon View NX2

Get metadata from the webNikon View NX2

The Semantic Web

“Lucien Vogel”

http://aal.ucsd.edu/vracore4/example020.xml

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'> <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:Iptc4xmpCore='http://iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/xmlns/'> <Iptc4xmpCore:CreatorContactInfo rdf:parseType='Resource'> <Iptc4xmpCore:CiAdrCtry>United States</Iptc4xmpCore:CiAdrCtry> </Iptc4xmpCore:CreatorContactInfo> <Iptc4xmpCore:Location>Rohwer, Arkansas</Iptc4xmpCore:Location> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'> <dc:creator> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li>Sugimoto</rdf:li> <rdf:li>Henry</rdf:li> </rdf:Seq> </dc:creator>

.xmp file

The future

Exercise

Open file:

EMwg-manuscript1

Swap data with a template

step 1 of 8

Exercise

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step 2 of 8

ExerciseSwap data with a template

step 3 of 8

Exercise

Open file:

EMwg-manuscript2

Swap data with a template

step 4 of 8

ExerciseSwap data with a template

1

2

step 5 of 8

ExerciseSwap data with a template

step 6 of 8

ExerciseSwap data with a template

step 7 of 8

ExerciseSwap data with a template

step 8 of 8

Exercise

Open folder:

Acropolis

Batch catalog

step 1 of 4

ExerciseBatch catalog

Select these four thumbnails

Enter new data here

step 2 of 4

Exercise

Source: Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Copyright Status: Public Domain

Rights Usage Terms:

This image may be freely copied and used for any desired application.

Copyright Notice: This image is in the public domain.

step 3 of 4

Exercise

Your new data

Click the check mark

step 4 of 4

Exercise

  

  

step 1 of 7

Exercise

  

  

Image Creator: Allan T. Kohl

Job Title: Visual Resources Librarian

Address: 2501 Stevens Avenue

City: Minneapolis

Sate/Province: MN

Postal Code: 55404

Country: US

Phone: 612-874-3781

E-Mail: allan_kohl@mcad.edu

Website: http://mcad.edu/

step 2 of 7

Exercise step 3 of 7

Exercise

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Close the info panel5

step 4 of 7

Exercise step 5 of 7

Exercise

Import

Select your template

double click or “Open”

Select “Clear existing…”

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step 6 of 7

Exercise

click OK to save and close

step 7 of 7

Export-Import

EMETEmbedded Metadata Extraction Tool

Just about all metadata

Export-Import

IPTC-PLUS for Bridge

All IPTC & PLUS metadata

Export-ImportVRA Export-Import for Bridge

All fields used in the VRA panel& some technical metadata

adobe.com/devnet/xmp.html

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