The Name’s The Thing
I’m always curious about names and where they come from and what they mean. Hence, my interest was aroused with the constant references to “XAP” in XMP. As the XMP Specifcation (Sept. 2005) says:...
View ArticleXMP-Ville
Been so busy looking into the technical details of XMP that I almost forgot to check out the current landcsape. Luckily I chanced on these articles by Ron Roszkiewicz for The Seybold Report (and...
View ArticleMetadata – For the Record
Interesting post here from Gunar Penikis of Adobe entitled “Permanent Metadata” (Oct. ’04). He talks about the the issues of embedding metadata in media and comes up with this: “It may be the case that...
View ArticleI Want My XMP
Now, assuming XMP is a good idea – and I think on balance it is (as blogged here earlier), why are we not seeing any metadata published in scholarly media files? The only drawbacks that occur to me...
View ArticleHybrid
So, back on the old XMP tack. The simple vision from the XMP spec is that XMP packets are embedded in media files and transported along with them – and as such are relatively self-contained units, see...
View ArticleXMP Marches On
For those who may be interested in the progress of XMP, Adobe’s Gunar Penikis has just announced two new releases of XMP SDKs: XMP Toolkit 4.4 (with support for new file formats), and FileInfo SDK (for...
View ArticleXMP Library for Flash
Update about new XMP Library from Adobe Labs: “The new Adobe XMP Library for ActionScript is now available for download on Adobe Labs. Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling technology...
View ArticleXMP Primer
There’s a new XMP Primer (PDF) by Ron Roskiewicz (ed. Dianne Kennedy) available from XMP-Open. This is copyrighted 2008 but I only just saw this now. This is a 43 page document which provides a very...
View ArticleAdd CrossRef metadata to PDFs using XMP
In order to encourage publishers and other content producers to embed metadata into their PDFs, we have released an experimental tool called “pdfmark”, This open source tool allows you to add XMP...
View ArticleXMP in RSC PDFs
Just a quick heads-up to say that we’ve had a go at incorporating InChIs and ontology terms into our PDFs with XMP. There isn’t a lot of room in an XMP packet so we’ve had to be a bit particular about...
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