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IPTC: Machine Readable Rights day documentation available

Mar 20. 2013
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Last week the Machine Readable Rights and the News Industry day took place in Amsterdam. CEPIC was also there. Now you can download most of the presentations and slides that summerize the event.

Here you can watch the presentations on video.

A summary of the event is available here.

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Do embedded rights metadata of photos survive social media systems?

Mar 18. 2013
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This was the title of a presentation made at the IPTC conference on 12 March 2013 in Amsterdam on "machine readable rights".

More and more photos are shared over social media websites. Also professional photos. IPTC was approached by users who discovered that when they shared photos, the embedded metadata disapeared.

The IPTC study on social media and rights metadata was released on 12 March 2013. Using a "traffic light" value system, easy to understand, it shows the good and bad guys of social media sites form Google + to Facebook over Pinterest, Dropbox, Flickr, Twitpic etc.

  • The full study may be found here

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Linked Content Coalition and Rights Data Integration

Nov 07. 2012
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On Tuesday 13 November, partners of the Linked Content Coalition will gather in Brussels for the second plenary session of the Linked Content Coalition and the kick-off meeting of the RDI project.

The plenary, which takes place in the morning, will provide an opportunity to inform all participants of the current progress of work, notably from the technical workstreams and discuss the next steps to come.

In the afternoon of the same day, the kick-off meeting of the RDI (Rights Data Integration) project initiated by the LCC will be held from 14:30 H. The main objective of the kick-off meeting is for everyone to meet and to have an opportunity to hear brief presentations on the various elements of the project and their interaction.

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Find the Rights - IPTC Conference 2012

Jun 26. 2012
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© CTK Photobank. Metadata Conference 2012 in London.

BySarah SaundersIt was great to have the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference in London this year. Metadata has moved now to a central position in the image licensing industry. Our topic covered two aspects of search- finding the image and finding the rightsholders - both essential for the future of the image business.

The full agenda for the conference is shown on the IPTC web site, and I report here on the sessions I was closely involved in. Overall, the conference was a great success, with excellent speakers and very good feedback from attendees. Image search was a major topic, with sessions chaired by David Riecks including reports on visual search techniques, controlled vocabularies, crowd sourcing, linked data and indexing images for web search.

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ARROW System Demonstrations

Apr 23. 2012
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Arrow has featured a number of demonstrations of its system for CEPIC members.

  • On 03 May 2012, a meeting in Paris will bring "Work Package 6" (EVA and CEPIC members) together.

This is a preparatory meeting for the piloting of image data sources. Picture agencies (akg images berlin, akg images paris, bpk, mauritius images, photononstop, RMN), collecting societies (VG Bildkunst, DACS, Sofia, Copie France) but also TEL, Di-Tech and IFRRO are attending.

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New campaign to embed information permanently in digital media

Dec 16. 2011
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A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but permanently attached descriptions are worth a lot more as photos travel through the digital world. A campaign has been launched now to embed descriptive and rights information in digital media and to retain it during the whole life cycle.

The initiative has been launched by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), with the support of trade organisations representing visual arts and photo agencies. It aims to establish the practice of applying descriptions and the copyright status of the content as metadata, and to embed it permanently during the electronic exchange of digital photo, text, audio or video files.

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Metadata is like software. Understand its capabilities, use it, improve your business

Sep 22. 2011
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BySarah SaundersThat's easily said, but CEPIC has taken a concrete step to help by commissioning the CEPIC/IPTC Metadata Handbook, authored by Sarah Saunders of Electric Lane with the active participation of the IPTC Photometadata Working Group.

With 76 IPTC fields now available for use, people working in the image business need an overview of metadata planning where IPTC fields are seen in a workflow context. The aim of the guide is to show how companies can follow key principles and plan metadata to suit their own resources, environment, and customer profiles. Only enter data once. Don't use software which drops metadata. Plan your workflow to included metadata. Embed critical data in the image file. ..and so on.

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The CEPIC IPTC Metadata Handbook is available for download for CEPIC Members

Aug 30. 2011
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European picture agency organisation CEPIC has joined forces with standards body IPTC to produce the CEPIC/IPTC Metadata Handbook which was launched on 20 May 2011 at the CEPIC Congress in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Image Metadata Handbook is available for download as a zip file attached to this article.

CEPIC/IPTC Image Metadata Handbook

  • Authors and contributors

Sarah Sanders (Electric Lane), Michael Steidl (IPTC), Paul Brown (CEPIC), Christian Donle, Nancy Wolff

  • Prerequisite

Use Adobe Reader 10/X or Adobe Acrobat 10/X to read the documents of the Handbook. Adobe reader 10 is free to download at http://get.adobe.com/reader/.
Some functions may not work with earlier versions.

  • Start reading

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Vincent Baby Introduces Himself

Jul 06. 2011
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Dear member delegate of the IPTC:

I am requesting a few moments of your time to introduce myself as the new chairman of the Board of Directors of the IPTC. I first want to thank all voting member delegates for the trust they have placed in me at last month’s Annual General Meeting in Berlin and to express gratitude to my predecessor, Stéphane Guérillot, for his steady and successful leadership over the past six years.

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Embedded Metadata Manifesto (2011)

Jul 05. 2011
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The Manifesto was issued by the IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group in May 2011.

Photographers, film makers, videographers, illustrators, publishers, advertisers, designers, art directors, picture editors, librarians and curators all share the same problem: struggling to track rapidly expanding collections of digital media assets such as photos and video/film clips.

With that in mind we propose five guiding principles as our "Embedded Metadata Manifesto":

  1. Metadata is essential to describe, identify and track digital media and should be applied to all media items which are exchanged as files or by other means such as data streams.