Hi Stephanie,

We are investigating using this as well.  Our current practice is  
primitive: we cram collection data into ITPC 1.0 spec fields.. it's  
less than perfect, but we're investigating ITPC 1.1 spec, and that may  
be more suitable.  Another option is to go for a custom schema (a few  
institutions have these, I believe), in XMP metadata.

For us, metadata writing is a feature of our DAM, which gathers the  
information from TMS directly.

There are challenges, for sure.  Lots of image libraries and programs  
love to silently trim the metadata from images (one example: apple's  
preview and iphoto are notorious for removing xmp metadata).  All in  
all, it has thusfar proven to be more stable than the image+sidecar  
metadata file method.

Seems like it's a great way to share data too.. I think ArtSTOR has  
done a little bit of work with this.

-Ryan
George Eastman House



On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Stephanie Hansen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We recently posted this to the RAAM Listserv, and thought the TMSers  
> might
> have some good advice here too....
>
> I’m hoping some of you are willing to share what your institutions  
> current
> practices/standards are for image metadata.  We’ve recently made the
> transition to direct digital capture and the question of what  
> metadata to
> embed into the file has come up.  What object information do you  
> embed into
> the image file, and how do how do you do so (e.g. jpeg properties or
> photoshop bridge in the tif)?  Is there a program that you use that is
> synchronized with TMS?
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephanie Hansen
> Rights & Reproductions / Database Administrator
> Milwaukee Art Museum
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