Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Image Management Tom Richie Murugesh Annadurai Chihuahuan Desert Network

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Image Metadata Problem Too many standards for the same information EXIF – Technical metadata IPTC – Administrative and Descriptive metadata XMP – Hybrid of EXIF, IPTC and Dublin Core NPS Metadata Standard

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program File Header Properties Namespace or Metadata Blocks Memory addresses within the file header that stores the metadata elements of the various standards. /app13/irb/8bimiptc/iptc/copyright notice /app1/ifd/{ushort=33432} /xmp/ dc:rights

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Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping EXIF, IPTC and XMP mapping is already established by the Microsoft Photo Metadata Policy, Mapping NPS Photo Metadata Standard to the Microsoft Policy. We matched various elements of each standard based on definition and not on label.

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping Image or Set Create Date XMP: Date Time Original IPTC: Date Created EXIF: Date Time

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping Constraints Information XMP: dc:Rights IPTC: Copyright Information EXIF: N/A

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping Contact Information XMP: Caption Writer IPTC: Description Writer EXIF: N/A

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping NPS Title - A very descriptive title that answers the questions: a) who or what b) where c) when Matches XMP: dc:Description IPTC: Headline EXIF: Image Description

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping Access Constraints No real good matching element The range values are 1-8 with the following assignments: 1 = Park Only; 5 = NPS Only; 8 = Public. XMP: Urgency IPTC: Urgency EXIF: N/A

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping NPS Unit Alpha Code No real good matching element We use City and append the Park Code to Keywords XMP: City IPTC: City EXIF: N/A

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping Image Content Place - Location Details The name of a well-known area within a park (e.g. McKittrick Canyon) or a description of the location relative to some landmark so it can be relocated in the future. No real good matching element XMP: Instructions IPTC: Special Instructions EXIF: None

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping Keywords XMP: dc:Subject IPTC: Keywords EXIF: N/A

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping GPS Attributes WGS84 Lat/Long XMP: exif:GPSLongitude exif:GPSLatitude IPTC: N/A EXIF: GPSLongitude GPSLatitude

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Metadata Mapping

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Inserting Metadata Microsoft Photo Metadata Policy - Property Rules When writing a value, the handler will write the value to each path listed in the order of precedence that it can find in the file. If a path is listed as required, even if the path does not exist in the file, it is created and the value is written to it.

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Inserting Metadata Copyright Order Path Required 1/xmp/ dc:rights Yes 2/app13/irb/8bimiptc/iptc/copyright notice No 3/app1/ifd/{ushort=33432} No

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Inserting Metadata META initiates every matching element so it can be written according to the Microsoft Image Metadata Policy making the information available to as many applications as possible.

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Inserting Metadata

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Inserting Metadata

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Inserting Metadata

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Image Metadata Extraction Most off-the-shelf image management will be able to read this metadata. Extensis Thumbs Plus

Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Image Metadata Extraction Windows Indexing Server with an XMP iFilter can extract and catalog image file properties.

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Chihuahuan Desert Network Intermountain Region Inventory & Monitoring Program Without metadata a picture is just a picture