Vista Image Metadata

Continuing my irratic quest for consistant and standardised use of metadata in image applications (including online services) an update from the land of Vista (that's Vista as in the forthcoming version of Windows from Microsoft).

I've been playing with builds of Vista for quite a while, so it was great to see the Microsoft Photo team blogging about support for metadata in Vistas Photo Gallery applet. Not only is in-the-image-file metadata supported, but they're also going (or should I say have gone) with support for Adobe's XMP metadata standard.

For a quick example, here's my metadata test file in the Vista Photo Gallery...

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The preview shows metadata from the file, and the keyword fields are exposed as tags. In addition, the Vista explorer also exposes the image metadata in the files properties...

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 Nice.

 

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