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

[Jon Phillips <jon rejon org>]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:01 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> 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.

Great...is there a wiki and/or place where this can be fleshed out...I
really want to make the push for using XMP for this.

Jon

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