Digital Imagery
Photo Metadata Conference
7 June 2007 -- Florence, Italy (Europe)
Working towards a seamless photo workflow
Exif, IIM, XMP, IPTC Core, custom panels – these are only a few terms from the
continuously growing spectrum of metadata standards and technology that apply
to photos. Whether it's your photos or the photos of your customers, your
business depends on an accurate, smooth work flow. Metadata helps make that
happen.
Photographers must describe the content properly and permanently assert their
authorship. Photo agencies and aggregators must collect and normalize the
metadata from different photographers, and then add their own information to
allow quick pinpoint access by their customers. The publisher's photo desk
wants to easily see search results from photo databases. and the production
department aims at having the photo printed or displayed at the best possible
quality.
For all these steps, metadata can provide a big boost toward a seamless photo
workflow. But people from the photo, news and publishing industries know that
more improvements are still pending.
The Photo Metadata Conference brought together major players from the photo
business: creator and users, from freelance photographers to photo editors of
global news providers; prominent maintainers of photo metadata standards; and
the makers of cameras and imaging software. Together, we analysed the current
state of applying metadata to photos and learnt how to achieve a seamless photo
workflow from the camera to the final photo that is seen by the end user. And
we concluded: there is some work outstanding.
Conference Organizers:
IPTC
The IPTC (http://www.iptc.org/), based in Windsor, UK, is a consortium of the
world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. It
develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are
used by virtually every major news organization in the world.
IFRA
IFRA (www.ifra.com) is the world's leading organization for newspaper and media
publishing with 10 locations worldwide. It has been registered since 1961 as an
association with headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, and acts as the platform
for decision-makers from the newspaper industry. Ifra publishes the trade
magazine Newspaper Techniques Monthly in four languages. Research and
standardization, international conferences, seminars, training events and
consulting are further components of the service Ifra offers primarily to its
more than 3000 members in nearly 80 countries.
CEPIC
CEPIC (http://www.cepic.org/) is a European Economic Interest Group (E.E.I.G)
not for profit representing the interests of picture associations, agencies and
libraries in Europe, in total 1.053 picture agencies and libraries in Europe,
from the smallest to the largest, the sole trader and the global company,
covering all aspects of photography, news, stock, heritage.
Conference Sponsor:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/) revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas
and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium.
Source: http://www.phmdc.org/