Fotografer Cepic håller sin årliga kongress på Malta i juni. Då möts alla bildbyråer världen över för att skaffa sig agenter och agenturer över hela världen. 2007 träffade 950 personer från 52 länder i Florence. Redan nu har 500 personer föranmält sig vilket är mer än ifjol vid samma tidpunkt. På kongressen hålls också seminarier.

Ett arbete har också föregått inom IPTC www,iptc.org beträffande nya metadata för bilder bl.a. blir det möjligt att från kamera lagra ett unikt id-nummer för varje bild. Det kommer vara en separat metadatakonferens för att diskutera dessa frågor.

Språkstöd!?

Ur ett svenska perspektiv (och för alla som levererar bilder till länder med olika språk) så skulle stöd för språk i metadata vara en extremt tacksam funktion. Som det är idag så måste i princip fotografer skapa dubbla filstrukturer för bilder med svenska och t.ex engelska metadata (eftersom det inte idag inte går att ange svenska och engelska nyckelord i olika fält).

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Photo Metadata
Preparing the first G2-Standards for release is not the only IPTC interestarea that has seen a lot of work. The Photo Metadata Group have nearly finished specification of
an extended set of metadata properties for use in the photo workflow.

Some 70 properties are covered, in four groups:
• Descriptive metadata to describe the content of the photograph. This includes such information as a description (including captions), headline, model information, organisations and people in the image along with keywords and descriptive codes.
• Administrative metadata, provides additional information about the content, that cannot be retrieved or inferred directly from the content. Included in this are a
digital image identifier, image registry identifier, date and location of image creation, and instructions.
• Rights metadata to assert ownership of the content and control its use. Co-operation between IPTC and the PLUS Coalition (Picture Licensing Universal System -
http://www.useplus.com) has resulted in an agreed set of rights related metadata which will be used by both organisations.
• Additional metadata types including structured contact details and information about artwork or objects shown in the image (including copyright, creator and source) which addresses Cultural Heritage requirements.

XMP schema
The metadata set includes an established group of properties that are already handled by the IPTC Core schema (for Adobe XMP) - http://www.iptc.org/IPTC4XMP - while the new properties will be catered for by the IPTC Extended schema.

It is also intended that the specification for each property will includes details on how it can be implemented in the G2-Standards family.

Metadata Conference
Preparations are also being made for a second International Photo Metadata Conference which will be held in Malta on 5 June 2008, in conjunction with the CEPIC Congress 2008.

Theme of the Conference is “Metadata for Better Business” with the following main areas being considered:

• Relative business advantages of Keywords and Controlled Vocabularies.
• Software support for metadata input.
• Identification of photographs with global identifiers.

In addition the Conference will have the first public presentation of the IPTC Core (for XMP) and the IPTC extended scheme of photo metadata properties, along with an overview by the Stock Artists Alliance on how major stock photo distributors use metadata.