Metadata is simply information about an item- eg digital image,
it includes informally everything said about the picture attatched to the
picture that explains what it is
There are formal standards- eg Dublin core – but many different
edwin
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Subject: Metadata
Hello,
can anyone explain to me exactly what metadata is?
My understanding is that it's all the technical data from the camera, embedded
within the file. However, I wandered if any captioning I give to an image will
also be included in this.
I caption stuff in the 'file info' tool in Photoshop. I wander whether someone
without access to PS could read the captions in another piece of
software, such as photomechanic etc?
Any thoughts gratefully received.
Cheers,
Jonathan.
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