[uf-discuss] Adobe's XMP Platform (for media metadata)

David Janes -- BlogMatrix davidjanes at blogmatrix.com
Mon May 1 03:48:43 PDT 2006


Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> On 4/30/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> We've talked much about media-metadata and fotonotes... I wonder where
>> XMP fits into this, as it's open source... At the very least we should
>> do due diligence, eh?
> 
> FWIW, XMP is just marketing speak for an RDF subset. And while there
> is an open source toolkit, it's C++-only. The format itself is not
> particularly open.

I had to do a surprisingly large amount of reading to get to that point 
in their docs! I was hoping to find more of substance in terms of data 
modeling; maybe I haven't pushed down to the right level yet. I find 
Adobe's site pretty hard to navigate.

Regards, etc...
David



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