[cc-metadata] [Fwd: Re: EXIF metadata]

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Sat Aug 19 17:56:34 EDT 2006


-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Hubert Figuiere <hub at figuiere.net>
> To: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> Cc: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work
> <cc-metadata at lists.ibiblio.org>, cc-devel at lists.ibiblio.org
> <cc-devel at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [cc-metadata] EXIF metadata
> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:08:30 -0400
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, I have to actually dig out the documentation.
> 
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 18:16, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 19:35 -0700, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > > One of the http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Summer_of_Code_2006_Projects
> > > is addressing EXIF, though I haven't seen the code yet...
> >
> > I created a page for those interested in getting and putting metadata
> > into the filetypes which use Exif:
> >
> > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Exif
> 
> > Also, I think supporting the standard Exif metadata tag "Copyright",
> > which is a string would be important as well:
> >
> >     0x8298 Copyright string IFD0
> >
> > And possibly the Comment type as well:
> >
> >     0x9286 UserComment undef ExifIFD
> 
> There is also the "Artist" tag, 0x013b described as "Person who created the 
> image" in the Exif 2.2 spec.
> It is the same as in TIFF 6.0
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I'm also cc'ing Hubert Figuiere, who has worked on this filetype
> > extensively. Hubert, could you help us find out the best way to embed
> > licensing using Exif? These resource might exist, but hopefully you can
> > help us find them.
> 
> So "Copyright" tag would carry the complete copyright, including the CC 
> license type, and the "Artist" tag would contain just the name of the 
> copyright holder.
> 
> 
> Hub
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