But the memories live on. Looks like the funeral industry in Japan has found a unique way to link to the deceased.
I talk about XMP metadata as a communication technology carried within the media but I never thought of it in terms of channeling my ancestors. Talk about embedded metadata, the QR codes are chiseled right into the tombstone.
Metadata seems to always add value to whatever it touches, even in creepy weird ways.
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I get frequent requests for how XMP can be used to automate the assembly and design process. This script demonstrates the ability to pull the Author and Document Title metadata info in the placed asset and place it in the InDesign document.
Thanks Steve for the blog posting.
Imagine if we were to start automating workflows based on other pieces of metadata... like rights information or design constraints - what would you like to see?
Gunar
Some new products that have added XMP support - looks like Drupa (happening this week) is spinning up PR announcements...
* NAPC Elegant 3.0 includes support for XMP in their Xinet connector plugin
* Fototime has added XMP support - looks like this was back in March
* ICS is showing approval sign- off via embedded XMP PDF support
TimeTube is a very nice UI for visualizing YouTube content no only as a timeline but as a list view, flipbook and map view. A interesting example of how to navigate videos with metadata.
I have been reading Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger - i am about halfway through. It reinforced the importance of faceted search as a navigation mode through loosely tagged media. Not everything can fit within a hierarchy, and there is value in slicing the information in different dimensions.
With different ways of navigating the information and the complexity of video (time based) metadata, we are going to see a renaissance in the display, experience and interaction with information. Infosthetics is a great site that has a beat on this with new examples all the time.
With the release of Microsoft's Plex, we may all be navigating metadata with our bodies rather than our mice.
I have a saying - "The more complex life gets, the more valuable design becomes." - It's going to be interesting what the Wii Gen will come up with for communication interfaces...
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Something is starting to smell... like success. I read Joseph Bachana's article over at CMS Watch on Innovations in DAM, Circa 2008 - His view is that XMP is starting to take off driven by customer demand.
"Ever since the XMP spec was first released in 2005, commentators predicted the standard was on the verge of taking off, but it never quite did...until perhaps last year. Within the past year, virtually all of the digital asset management implementations my company has executed have included the XMP spec to varying degrees. It might be that we're influencing that as a consulting firm, but more often than not the customer is driving."
Well XMP has been around since the turn of the century (not 2005). It's taken a while for it to get adopted across the Adobe toolset and mature into a key technology. The turning point was updating the XMP Toolkit - the developer SDK that provides the same exact libraries that Adobe applications use to process metadata.
This was additionally reinforced at the Henry Stewart Asset Management Conference that just wrapped up in Liberty City...er I mean NY. Even though Adobe didn't have a booth, there was a lot of buzz about XMP from customers and partners alike.
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