One of the advantages of digital image files is that they can contain or be associated with sets of descriptive data. There are several formats, schemas, and methodologies involved. In our overview, we discuss the basic concepts.
Metadata
Keywords are one of the most flexible ways to describe your images. These descriptions can be of great use when organizing and searching your picture collection. Keywords are an especially essential attribute for stock image collections.
Metadata is often a large collection of small details. Metadata templates are the best way to embed or associate metadata with image files in a streamlined, efficient, repeatable and comprehensive way.
Making use of and preserving metadata is not that difficult, once you understand where it lives, how to move it from place to place, how to back it up, and how to attach it to images.
Last Updated September 22, 2015
