Zooomr listening to users...

There's a theory - which in my experience has a stack of supporting evidence - that doing an excellent job of fixing a problem or addressing an issue puts you in a better position than if the problem or issue had never existed.

In a previous post I commented on the lack of metadata support in Zooomr. Thomas Hawk, Chief Evangelist for Zooomr no less, commented that EXIF should persist through into Zooomr without the need to retag. Looking again, here's what I found...

Original camera EXIF data is being preserved through the Zooomr upload process, but additional metadata (including mapping IPTC keywords to Zooomr tags) isn't.

For example, take this picture uploaded to Zooomr:

zooomr

It has the camera EXIF data from my Sony DSC-V1, but additional
metadata (in this case added using Picasa, IrfanView and Photoshop
CS2) hasn't been preserved (or if it has, it isn't displayed).

If you look at the same file uploaded to flickr:


flickr

You'll see a number of tags, the title and description have been populated from the EXIF and IPTC data in the uploaded image [1].

Thomas has already responded that they'll take a look, even though I'm guessing they have plenty of stuff on their hands at the moment.

So, full marks for the response so far, and I'll be watching with interest to see how Zooomr evolves.




[1] In the flickr example the only tag added in flickr was flicrUploadTag, likewise in Zooomr, zooomrUploadTag was added in the Zooomr upload screen.




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