Metadata in a Multimeda World
The programme of the third international Photo Metadata Conference continued the discussions from previous years: metadata is crucial to business and having a common set of fields and terms across as many involved parties as possible highly improves the value of any content. But the media business is moving forward and the buzz word of media convergence is becoming real: primarily driven by the requirements of web publishers the exchange of visual media using photos, graphics and video is merging into a single business. What does this mean for those who have a stake in this business across media types, do we have to go back to the drawing board to create a new set of common metadata?
