Re: How does F-spot handle metadata

[Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>]

On 03/29/2009 04:55 PM, Anton Keks wrote:
> It seems that F-Spot also uses the Adobe's XMP format for storing keywords
> and description inside of JPEG and PNG files. For parsing of XMP it uses the
> SemWeb RDF library.
> XMP is what Adobe programs also support for such kind of metadata, including
> licence info. I am currently looking on how Lightroom reads/writes such data
> using VirtualBox:-)

You know that Exempi is actually the Adobe XMP SDK wrapped in C apis....

http://libopenraw.freedesktop.org/wiki/Exempi

If does not implement the semantics (because that is out of scope), but 
it output things the same way as any Adobe software.


> Look at XMP, it seems to be the way to go for licenses. Lightroom also
> provides the possibility of attaching licenses in the import dialog. F-Spot
> could use a similar design:-)


liblicense already support writing license using XMP. Liblicense is an 
official CC project.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Liblicense



Hub