Gunar's Site http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/ A blog for sharing interests in metadata, digital file management, creative and technical pursuits. I am currently the Product Manager for Adobe Bridge and XMP technologies. en Copyright 2007 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:33:36 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss IPTC support - XMP and IIM IPTC support of XMP has been critical in raising the awareness of the importance of metadata in the photography and news communities. This has led to XMP being the metadata platform of choice for PLUS (picture licensing) and for AdsML for print based advertising workflows.

As XMP's influence expands from image capture across creative workflows, it demonstrates the value of Adobe tools to carry the creator's information and intent throughout the publishing lifecycle.

The value of this interoperability is demonstrated in the support of XMP by non-Adobe vendors.

The IPTC has been collecting information on software products that supports the IPTC standard - both the old IIM format and the new XMP based format.

The list of vendors and their IPTC support is here.

Roughly half non-Adobe vendors are supporting XMP - which is pretty good considering PS CS2 was the first implementation of XMP based IPTC.

The 4.0 version of the XMP toolkit will accelerate this adoption since it will provide the libraries necessary to write XMP that is consistent with the Adobe products.

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/11/iptc_support_xmp_and_iim.html http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/11/iptc_support_xmp_and_iim.html Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:33:36 -0800 XMP Open™ Day From the IDEAlliance newsletter -
"As part of its new XMP Open™ initiative, IDEAlliance will host XMP Open Day in conjunction with the PrintMedia 06 Conference and Expo at the Hilton New York on March 22, 2006. XMP Open Day will provide tutorials about metadata and XMP™ as well as a series of panel discussions featuring publishers who intend to build their asset management strategies upon XMP. You will learn how XMP works in Adobe’s Creative Suite and learn about new IDEAlliance XMP Open initiatives designed extend this critical new technology to meet the requirements of the end-to-end digital asset supply chain. Before the day is over you will understand the promise of this technology and develop a network of media asset companies who plan to base their digital asset management strategy on XMP. Registration for the IDEAlliance XMP Open Program will enable you to attend the PrintMedia 06 Keynote Presentation and Expo as well. You can register at www.xmp-open.org. "

BTW - I am the product manager for Adobe Bridge and XMP.

Gunar

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/02/xmp_open_day.html http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/02/xmp_open_day.html Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:25:37 -0800 CSI nonsense has to stop! Alright, first off, disclaimers out of the way, it is one of my favorite shows. Paritally because it's scientific and all, but I also live for the image manipulation sequences.

Last night there was a scene where they are viewing survelliance tape. They stop the frame on this grainy, night shot, B/W tape, then zoom in on an area 1/1000 the size of the screen:

"There! That piece of paper. Zoom in on that" - wait for it....

"See if I can enhance that..." - get ready for some magic!

"What is it a barcode?" - looks like nasty pixels to me

"Looks like a PDF 417" - LOL, ROTFL, I am enhaling carpet at this point

"2 dimensional barcode" - wait it gets better

"can you decode it?" - of course!

"I think so" - tap, tap, tap on the keyboard ... appropriate star trek like noise (hmmm maybe we should have that when we run Photoshop filters)...

then the image magically appears at 300 dpi

"OK, it's an airline boarding pass" - jeez, the software was able to decode it

"...last night,Vegas to Philadephia, then on to Rome, and Sardinia"

Well, at least I can give them credit for the PDF 417.

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/01/csi_nonsense_has_to_stop.html http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/01/csi_nonsense_has_to_stop.html Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:54:06 -0800 IPTC Panel tutorials on SAA The Stock Artist Alliance has a nice set of video tutorials on getting started with the IPTC panels.

The tutorials were done a few months back by David Riecks. For those getting started in metadata and photography it is worth a look.

David runs controlledvocabulary.com which is a wonderful resource for metadata, tagging, vocabularies and all that good stuff.

Gunar

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/01/iptc_panel_tutorials_on_saa.html http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/01/iptc_panel_tutorials_on_saa.html Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:30:30 -0800 Blog on Finally got the blog setup, another New Year's resolution checked off.

For other resolutions perhaps I need to be hassled once in a while. I love the tag line: "Because sometimes in life, you just need to be nagged..."

Gunar

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/01/blog_on.html http://blogs.adobe.com/gsite/2006/01/blog_on.html Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:30:11 -0800