That blog post was written in 2006 for Vista. I wonder where they are now. ----- JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog
On 6/3/2010 3:50 PM, Steve Voght wrote: > I assume Mike is speaking of the tagging feature included as part of > Windows Live Photo Gallery, which is in fact an XMP-based compliant > system. The IPTC itself has embraced the XMP standard as the way to > do metadata storage in the future, and Adobe has released the spec and > an SDK for it, so in this case Microsoft is following an open-source > standard that's neither proprietary nor 'yet another way' (see > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pix/archive/2006/08/16/702780.aspx for more > about how Windows is handling things.) > > Both EXIF and the former IPTC standard metadata are a subset of the > XMP standard, which itself is designed to be extensible and support a > mix of standard and custom tags much in the same way the GEDCOM > standard is designed to do that for genealogy. > > So to somewhat revise the previous wish, it would be nice if Legacy or > one of its add-ons was able to read (and write!) XMP metadata. > > -Steve > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, JLB<[email protected]> wrote: >> god knows, we don't need another Microsoft proprietary method. I noticed >> in the short time I had Windows Search 4 installed that it read IPTC >> data from photographs. So maybe they have at least a faint clue what it is. >> ----- >> JL >> JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists >> http://www.jgen.ws/jlog >> >> On 6/3/2010 3:03 PM, Mike Fry wrote: >>> On 2010/06/03 23:44, Mary Young wrote: >>>> Among others, I suggested this more than 5 year >>>> >>> >>> As always, Legacy will be driven by what Microsoft provide. If you look >>> at Windows 7, you'll find yet another propriety method of 'tagging' >>> things, which is, after al, what IPTC is about. > > > > 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 > > > > 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
