Re: Availability of image metadata

Hello Jim, www-svg,

You wrote
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2002Jul/0019.html

> Aswell as this basic metadata though, there is also more complex
> metadata stored in images, notably in the Adobe XMP format which
> embeds RDF metadata inside the blocks, tools such as the W3's RDFPic
> and Adobes own tools can generate such XMP [1] blocks. I'd like this
> available because of the options it opens up, and the simple
> implementation (with a 5 line perl script you can add it to
> SVG/Batik, but that relies on the server loading the image aswell as
> the client, which is obviously not the same.)

There are two separate issues here. One is the access of one DOM from
another, across a link (as happens with for example a symbol element
and the corresponding use element). The other issue, which is
problematical, is the access to image metadata of whatever image
format in a regular fashion.

There are so many raster image formats and for each, there are
multiple and often incompatible ways to add metadata into them ranging
dfrom unstructured commentsto EXIF to proprietary and undocumented
binary blobs.

It seems a rather large task to expect a single raster image DOM,
independent of format and independent of how the metadata got
shoehorned into the image file and what schema it uses, to be able to
get the width (or the photographer, or the focal length).

It might be possible, but its a large task and not directly related to
SVG.

If and when such a thing was done, though, I agree that having a DOM
method on the image element that could give you a bridge into this
raster DOM would be a natural development.


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 Chris                          mailto:chris@w3.org

Received on Wednesday, 13 November 2002 05:33:53 UTC