http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/chocbox1.png http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/chocbox2.png A potential UI for a textual metadata editor using Dublin Core's element names (and of course internally it could use any parasite names that were deemed fit, but since parasite names are arbitrary text strings it might as well be DC.Creator, DC.Title etc.) EXIF's "Artist" is DC's "Creator" and PNG's "Author" (by convention) EXIF and PNG's "Copyright" is DC's "Rights" There are also a number of useful generic metadata structures in EXIF like the GPS data which could arguably be shared with other systems, and might therefore deserve a gimp-foo parasite name. One thing I can't seem to find out (maybe I'm looking in the wrong place) is whether EXIF data is supposed to follow derived works or not. Some contributors to this thread seemed to feel that it was important that a Gimp image must always preserve the EXIF data, but this would only make sense is EXIF is indeed a historical record of the source, and not live metadata. Can someone clear that up (preferably with a reference to an EXIF standards document or something) ? Nick.
