On 2013-07-18 [email protected] wrote:
 
> So the first question that needs to be sorted out is "is supporting IPTC 
> enough?" or do we also need all the exif and XMP fields? And if we decide 
> that 
> IPTC is all we need, are there standardized translations to/from exif and 
> xmp? 
> Because, if we get fed an image (or sidecar file) that contains relevant 
> information in those metadata sets, we surely want to keep them. The 
> alternative would be to support all possible data sets, however, that would 
> mean that we
> 1) have to decide what to do when the user changes the "Author" value in 
> exif. 
> Shall it be changed for IPTC, too?

I noticed that the docs for geeqie contain a section describing how this is 
handled within that particular application:

 http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/geeqie/wiki/GuideOptionsMetadata

Hope that's relevant, sorry if it's not.

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