Tags in Windows
After blogging about tags in Media Center I got some emails and comments about how the tags work in general. Fortunately the Pix Blog has started to discuss this:
XMP is an extensible framework for embedding metadata in files that was developed by Adobe, and is the foundation for our “truth is in the file†goal. All metadata written to photos by Windows Vista will be written to XMP (always directly to the file itself, never to a ‘sidecar’ file). When reading metadata from photos on Windows Vista, we will first look for XMP metadata, but if we don’t find any, we’ll also look for legacy EXIF and IPTC metadata as well. If we find legacy metadata, we’ll write future changes back to both XMP and the legacy metadata blocks (to improve compatibility with legacy applications).
Matt, are you aware of any third-party programs that can read CMP metadata written to photo files by Windows Vista? I’ve tried a bunch and have yet to find any that could locate those tags.
Here’s hoping my Photoshop Elements tags are readable by Media Center…
Whoops, of course I meant XMP, not CMP.
I tried the free version of Photoshop Elements and no go…
Mark: Elements tags by default live in the database. When you choose “write tag info to files” it writes it to IPTC which is read by Vista.
Matt: Please if you have the ability to do so can you try to get the legacy support implemented with an “always use legacy compatibility mode”? I would really like to ditch the legacy tools that I have for organization in favor of the new builtin tools in Vista. While I will ditch my legacy tools up front, I won’t be ditching some of the tools that are later in the process such as publishing to Flickr, sharing with other people who have legacy apps, etc. I’d really like to be able to turn on that compatibility mode until such time as the world has a chance to adjust to XMP.
All in all, I’m thrilled to hear that the tags are using XMP. I had feared some completely Microsoft-centric metadata layer and am overjoyed to hear that XMP is the model. Yay!
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Matt Goyer points out that Windows Vista photo tags will use XMP as the metadata layer. The topic……