I keep hoping that Legacy will get up to IPTC standard. IPTC being a standard for permanently embedding photo information in photos which can be both written and read with a variety of software.
As it is, the IPTC Caption field maps to Legacy's Description field in the photo galleries. Legacy only reads it, but doesn't write it. In other words, any information you manually type into their photo fields will not show up in other IPTC-reading/writing software. Consequently, it would be counterproductive to begin at the Legacy side. Better to annotate your pictures elsewhere before importing to Legacy. At least that way you get a Description. From a programmers point of view, I don't know how complicated it would be to turn Legacy into a IPTC reading/writing machine. It would really be something to be able to add Captions, Descriptions, Keywords, Copyrights, etc within Legacy and have that in sync with a standard that already exists. Doing 'something else' with the Source Writer would not be the way to go, IMO. Although building IPTC capability into the Source Writer would be delicious. In the meantime, I source all my photos outside Legacy with software that's designed to do that. ----- JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/tag/iptc On 6/1/2010 11:33 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:27:13 -0700 (PDT), Connie Sheets > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You get information from a photograph. The photograph is your source, and >> you cite the photograph. You attach the citation that describes the >> photograph to a piece of information you derive from the photograph, like a >> Family Reunion in 1939, not to the photograph itself. > > You don't always get any information from a photograph. For example, I > might attach a photograph of the ship my great-grandparents immigrated > aboard to the Immigration event. That photograph may have come from a > book which contained nothing but photos of ships. The photo itself > doesn't provide any genealogical information. Yet, I would like to > record where I got the photo for my own benefit and those who might use > my data. Sounds like a source to me. > > Certainly I can record that information in the photo's Description. But > doing that is akin to typing your sources in an event's Note field > instead of using the mechanism that Legacy provides for sourcing. > > The OP has a good question. I have always wondered why Legacy didn't > provide for sourcing of images. I just never bothered to ask the > question here. > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
