Whether you manage a large image library or a small collection of hard disks of personal work, you need to become proficient with the use of metadata and familiar yourself with metadata standards. Whether you sell to agencies or libraries or manage one, or just wish to have a chance to be indentifiable online, you must pay attention to metadata!
"Image Rights: Manage Them - or Lose", the title of the recent Barcelona Photo Metadata Conference, published all presentations from their conference and can all be viewed at: http://www.phmdc.org
Why not begin your education now and peruse the topics of your choice?
- Machine Readable Rights in Practice
- How can software help to manage rights?
- What the users need: the (bad?) experience of buyers and sellers
- The wider context: what is driving change?
- The Camera: a Source of Rights Metadata?
- Metadata of Cultural Heritage images
- Embedded metadata and attribution of heritage images
- IPTC Fields and the Cultural Heritage Sector
- Data issues for heritage image libraries
- Metadata technology: what the future might bring
- Do existing metadata standards cover the businss requirements
- Improved user interface features to make adding rights easier
- The impact of image registries and their APIs on image management software
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