For instance, when you go onto Shutterstock and type in a keyword, the engine sorts through massive amounts of image metadata to get you what you need. But lucky for you, if the image is not original and is already online, chances are that metadata has already been encoded into the file. Of course, this information has to be generated first. One of the more popular digital objects for which to keep metadata is images.
it can assist in the plan and preparation of products. For the back-end team - graphic designers, developers, etc. If the owner of the data wants to create 100 ways in which it could be categorized, then there will be 100 different headings of metadata.īecause it helps categorize data, keeping metadata is useful for more than just consumable products on the front-end. It is all the data one would need in order to better find that one asset, or larger piece of digital data. In the second part of this article, we will look at some libraries which can programatically access this data, including our own JDeli library.Metadata - if referring to something like an eBook - could include title, author, SKU, description, theme, keywords (useful for SEO and other engine searches), license, publisher, reading level, etc. This is under Image – Image Data menu option. Gimp is an Open Source multi-platform Image editor which can view and edit image metadata in mutliple formats including Exif and XMP. It is cross-platform and there is also a cloud version. It will let you not only view but edit several of the metadata fields including a location. JAblum is a commercial application which can also edit and help to organise images. It allows comprehensive access to metadata on all image file format. Photoshop is a high end commercial image editor from Adobe. There is a free plugin for Firefox and several plugins for Chrome which works on JPEG files. In this article, we will show you some free and commercial multi-platform tools which can be used for viewing Image Metadata on various platforms. In previous articles we have told you what Image metadata is. He has an MA in Medieval History and a passion for reading. Mark Stephens Mark has been working with Java and PDF since 1999 and is a big NetBeans fan.
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