[uf-discuss] Need a figure markup

Sun Oct 30 10:07:35 PST 2005

Scott,
Thanks for these terrific links.
Greg Elin
On Oct 30, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Scott Reynen wrote:
> Greg Elin wrote:
>>>> We have no HTML tags for rendering EXIF metadata and as a result 
>> presenting or creating behaviors around EXIF data.
>>>> Here are some examples of people rendering EXIF data in HTML:
>> http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.getExif.html
> (XML via API, and bits as HTML on any individual photo page)
> http://public.phanfare.com/album/628
> (click on "Details")
> http://www.pixagogo.com/Photos/Albums/Photo.aspx? 
> id=S4WqQKxL1gZLUgZdxrNDQWt0mqfT5dYGKzjgyy3-5HUQg9S0DYMCcCcg__
> (click on "Info")
> http://tinfoilproject.com/
> (click on "More on this photo")
>> There is certainly room for standardization, but the existing data 
> to be standardized is mostly EXIF data, so that would seem the 
> logical place to start. But if the only advantage of that is to 
> make the data machine-readable, why not use EXIF itself, which is 
> already machine-readable?
>>>> As I have discussed in other situations (and a large motivation 
>> behind my work with FotoNotes) is that EXIF metadata tends to 
>> focus on the visual artifact that is a photograph (the pixel 
>> space), with a dirth of parameters to describe the stories 
>> embedded in a photo (the information space).
>>>> Descriptive information can go into EXIF's "ImageDescription" tag. 
> Also, keyword, title, etc. I can't think of any information that 
> could not go into EXIF.
>>>> It is a great loss that browsers have the power to crack open the 
>> JPEG file and uncompress binary data to display data but entirely 
>> ignores embedded metadata text like EXIF.
>>>> Not entirely true:
>> http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/fxif/
>> Peace,
> Scott
> _______________________________________________
> microformats-discuss mailing list
> microformats-discuss at microformats.org
> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
>