RE: [Openexr-devel] EXIF meta data attributes in headers

[Chris Cox]

And XMP is more or less just a big blob of XML.
(I normally despise XML for the bloat, but in this case, it's the right way to 
handle metadata interoperability)

Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden on behalf of Michael Wolf
Sent: Wed 12/13/2006 1:25 PM
To: Florian Kainz; Piotr Stanczyk
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Openexr-devel] EXIF meta data attributes in headers
 
Hello,

Sorry for being a bit late on the thread...

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:02:26 +0100, Florian Kainz <address@hidden> wrote:

> what ?ort kind of information do you need to store?
> As far as I can tell, there's quite a bit of overlap
> between OpenEXR's "optional standard" attributes
> and EXIF data.
>
> Piotr Stanczyk wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just wandering what, if any, thoughts people have on having a standard EXIF 
>> typed attribute.
>> I'm sure there are various implementations out there, but is it worth having 
>> a common one?

Has anybody looked at XMP? http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/
It may not be as common as EXIF, but it does have Adobe and the W3C behind it.

Cheers,
Mike