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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Rob Litzke <robert.litzke AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org, discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-metadata] [cc-devel] Exif metadata
  • Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:12:08 +0000

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:18 -0400, Rob Litzke wrote:
> There are tags for most of the information we want to include
> ( ImageDescription, Artist, and Copyright), or 0x010E, 0x013B, and
> 0x8298, respectively. I think it makes the most sense to include title
> and artist in their own tags and just use copyright to link to the
> appropriate license.

I'd recommend populating it with a URL referencing a page that contains
a copyright notice for the embedded file. I link to a license is nearly
worthless -- anyone can add such a link to any image and there is no
telling who did it or whether the image is actually licensed.

I've updated http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Exif to reflect this.

> Perhaps also using the XP-specific tags could be useful, but since
> they aren't part of the specifications, I don't think they should
> contain information not in standard tags. I'll try to include all of
> these in the ccPublisher Exif writer.

I think you mean XMP. There is another similar recommendation, see
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/XMP

You could also populate XMP if the library you are using makes it easy
to do so.

> I don't, however, think that using the Comment tag (0x9286), is a good
> idea. Software sometimes overwrites this, and I think it should be
> kept clear strictly for comments. After all, there is a specific tag
> just for copyright.

Good point. Comment sounds fairly unusable.

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