IPTC Standard

Bibliographic description
The IPTC-NAA standards [on line]. Controlled Vocabulary. Available on:
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html

Dublin Core
Title : The IPTC-NAA standards
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Subject : metadata / IPTC / image description / image database
Description : "A controlled vocabulary can be useful in describing images and information when organizing and classifying content for image databases."
Publisher : Controlled Vocabulary
Date : ?
Type : Article
Format : HTML
Identifier : http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html
Source : http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/
Language : En
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Extract
Each image file can be saved using Adobe Photoshop with this text information embedded within the file. Anyone that's worked around newspapers, with digital images or image databases for a while has probably heard the acronyms IPTC or IPTC-NAA tossed around, usually when discussing the use of the File Info feature of photoshop. But few understand what they mean or stand for. The short story is that IPTC, the International Press Telecommunications Council, was one of the groups responsible for encouraging the standards necessary to“marry” the text information describing an image with the image data itself. The NAA is the Newspaper Association of America (formerly ANPA), and they also have been responsible for developing standards for exchanging information between news operations, including information used to describe images. [...]
Standards regarding metadata for news images have evolved over time, beginning in the 1970's when some were first issued as“guidelines.” However, most of these efforts were regional in nature, and focused on text. As news organizations moved from manual typewriters to CRTs (Cathode Ray Tubes) and VDTs (Video Display Terminals) these standards were revised and became more specific. Only later, as the world embraced the web, did the standards begin to address multimedia content.
In 1979, the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) approved its first news exchange standard IPTC 7901. This provided metadata and content in plain text only; the only delimiters allowed were spaces and line breaks...