Cross-industry body publishes metadata guidelines

Photokina 2008: The Metadata Working Group, an alliance between Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft, Nokia and Sony has published its first guidelines on the use of image metadata. The guidelines suggest methods to increase interoperability and storage of shooting settings and other associated data in digital images. It aims at standardizing the availability of metadata across all applications and devices, making it easier for users to create, organize and share their pictures.

Metadata is all of the information that is stored with a digital image: camera, lens, exposure, data and time and more.

Interesting that the Camera makers aren’t part of this, just the users of the metadata.