I have managed my photos for years with ACDSee (now using Pro). Not only does it have IPTC, but it has a wonderful and very fast search. It will search the title, notes, captions, tags--whatever you want, or all at once. I can find the documents for all people that include the number 1885, for example, or everyone named Giuseppe, or with a location of San Francisco--you get my drift. So, I put the source info into Legacy, but I don't use the picture gallery. Dee
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Voght [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures and ITPC data 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
