Good idea. I see a lot of EXIF and my hunch is that we would prefer that format, especially if the license data can be made to stick even after a photo has gone through image postprocessing in tools like the Adobe suite.
Pine On Sep 29, 2015 2:19 PM, "Jane Park" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I lead platform work > <https://github.com/creativecommons/platform-initiative> at Creative > Commons. As part of that work, we are exploring the potential of a standard > field in EXIF that could make attribution and license info more sticky > across the web. We are currently in the research phase -- talking to major > image hosting platforms (and platforms that read and ingest images) about > what kinds of image metadata they read and retain. Zhou and his engineering > team at Wikimedia directed me to this list as I am seeking feedback from > the Wikimedia community. > > Ultimately, we want to make it easier for platforms to display provenance > and license info -- increase the likelihood that when a user lands on an > image, they know who created it and what license to use it under. For > example, images from Wikimedia Commons may get tweeted, but the image > metadata is not retained in tweets. How can we work with platforms to use > the same metadata standard so that info can be retained across them? > > Since we are just in the research phase now, I welcome your thoughts on > Wikimedia Commons' and Wikipedia's own uses of image metadata. Specifically: > > 1. The most common image metadata standards we know about are EXIF and > XMP. Which does Wikimedia primarily read and retain? Are there others that > are more widely used? > 2. Which standard does Wikimedia prefer? What would be easiest to > implement? for Wikimedia, but also for the platforms that Wikimedia > interfaces with. Aka, what are the pros and cons of each? > > Lastly, welcome any general thoughts about the feasibility and need for > such a project. > > Best, > Jane > > > Jane Park > @janedaily > Creative Commons | Los Angeles > > Make a donation to support CC in 2015: http://bit.ly/supportcc2015 > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > >
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