Re: [Tracker] XMP sidecar files (newbie alert)

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jon Phillips wrote:

> > > Any thoughts, or am I better off waiting for beagle to update it's filter code?
> >
> > it would require significant changes to support that so its unlikely in 
> > the short term.
>
> Yes, this would be a major feature that myself and Creative Commons
> would be very supportive of...we are promoting the use of XMP for
> embedded and companion file metadata. It would be excellent to be able
> to both import, export and have this sidecar concept for this type of
> project so moving data around is not a lossy endeavour from filesystem
> to filesystem.

we will support it at some point. FWIW we need a way to back up and make 
mobile our user defined metadata in our database anyhow so sidecar may 
well be a format we use for this.


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