On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:18 -0400, Rob Litzke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on the Exif-writing Summer of Code project for
> ccPublisher. I'm at the stage of trying to figure out how exactly to
> include this information in the metadata. This seems to be where other
> people are
> ( http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-devel/2006-August/000167.html ) as 
> well.
> 
> There are tags for most of the information we want to include
> ( ImageDescription, Artist, and Copyright), or 0x010E, 0x013B, and
> 0x8298, respectively. I think it makes the most sense to include title
> and artist in their own tags and just use copyright to link to the
> appropriate license. Perhaps also using the XP-specific tags could be
> useful, but since they aren't part of the specifications, I don't
> think they should contain information not in standard tags. I'll try
> to include all of these in the ccPublisher Exif writer. 

Right, but still, will including hese XP-specific tags hurt...I think we
should support the standard, but its hard to ignore the windows XP
userbase...hmmm...standards should come first though IMO for
implementation.

> I don't, however, think that using the Comment tag (0x9286), is a good
> idea. Software sometimes overwrites this, and I think it should be
> kept clear strictly for comments. After all, there is a specific tag
> just for copyright. 

Agree.

> Let me know what your thoughts are - we definitely need a unified
> approach so that different Creative Commons software will interact at
> the same level.

Hi Robert, what did you end up implementing for your SoC project?

> Yours,
> 
> Robert Litzke 
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