On 13/2/06 8:50 PM, "Thomas Broyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> We were talking about pictures, so they probably are in JPEG or TIFF format.
> PNG doesn't support EXIF but has textual [1] and timestamp [2] information.
> JPEG2000 seems to have something similar too [3].
> 
> If we had been talking about an article or some documentation, the
> binary resource would probably have been represented in MSWord, ODF or
> PDF, which support embedded metadata.
> 
> If we had been talking about songs or audio interviews, the binary
> resource would probably have been represented in MP3, OggVorbis

Sounds like a lot of work to support metadata for binary data. Lots of work,
incomplete coverage, and unending as new resource types come into vogue.

e.

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