On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Farrukh Najmi <farr...@wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote: > On 07/02/2012 11:22 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Farrukh Najmi >> <farr...@wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> I am new to the project so forgive me if the answer is obvious... >>> >>> I am working with latest svn bits and the >>> org.apache.commons.imaging.formats.tiff.taginfos.TagInfo class seems to >>> only >>> support the TagName column of Table 3 TIFF Rev. 6.0 Attribute Information >>> Used in Exif in the Exif spec <http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF>. I need >>> access to FieldName as it seems more suitable as a human-friendly >>> identifier >>> for the tag. >>> >>> I think it would be ideal if TagInfo supports both TagName and FieldName. >>> What does the dev team think? If there are not many -1s then I will file >>> in >>> RFE in JIRA. >>> >>> Thanks for your input. >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Farrukh >>> >>> Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com >>> >> Hi Farrukh >> >> The TIFF6 specification Appendix A only has a "TagName", which is >> similar to Exif 2.2's "FieldName". Other TIFF tag specifications (DNG, >> TIFFPM6, RFC 2301) also only give a name and a description. >> >> Maybe what we need is: >> Use TagInfo's "name" field for the name taken verbatim from those >> specs (eg. use "ImageWidth" instead of "Image Width") >> Add a "description" field to TagInfo with a long description (eg. >> "Image width, the number of columns in the image") >> >> What do you think? > > > Hi Damjan, > > +1 on your proposed solution for using TagInfo.name for the Exif 2.2's > "Field Name" and for adding a TagInfo.description for Exif 2.2's "Tag Name". > This is what I was thinking as well. That in conjunction with existing > TagInfo.tag (the numeric id) completes the identification, naming and > description of the tag and makes for a clean model. > > What do dev team members <http://commons.apache.org/imaging/team-list.html> > think about this proposal? > > As an aside, this matches very well with ebXML RegRep's Registry Information > Model which is what I am trying to map photo metadata to. My eventual goal > is to define a standard specification to manage image content and metadata > in an ebXML Registry and Repository. > > > -- > Regards, > Farrukh > > Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com >
Those dev teams members are no longer around, it's mostly just me :). "description" is going to be difficult, as only EXIF provides it. But I'll start doing the "name". Regards Damjan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
