XMP - Metadata Support

What`s all this talk about XMP?

· XMP extends IPTC
· Find any file with XMP metadata
· Full multilanguage support – write and search for metadata in any language
· Central administration of metadata fields for deployment in large organizations
· Fully compliant with the XMP implementation in Adobe products

Put simply, XMP is a standard for storing metadata in files. In the past, FotoWare systems have relied on IPTC for storing information with files, a standard which has proved to have many limitations, particularly because it has only been partly compatible with many new file formats. With XMP, however, metadata can be added to any type of file.

For FotoWare, XMP has proved an absolute treat. It has allowed us to retain backwards compatibility while incorporating native support for the new standard throughout our product range. From a user’s point of view, the transition is completely transparent. When adding metadata to files that don’t support XMP data written directly to the file, an XMP sidecar file containing the metadata will be created and follow the file wherever it goes in the FotoWare system.

But we have taken the benefits of XMP a step further: By taking advantage of the multilanguage support in XMP, businesses operating in several countries can effortlessly add metadata in several languages, and it is possible to choose between searching only within a certain language or across all languages.