Does anyone know of any standard metadata file formats, along with documentation describing the format? I am looking to package images and other media and would like to provide a file at the base ...

Media management, storage systems and video servers all employ varying degrees of metadata to keep track of the assets stored on their systems. Metadata is essential to the success of file-based ...

As a kid living in San Francisco I fondly remember combing through the Main Library card catalog in search of books on electronics and telephone systems. Of course, “analog cards” are not computer ...

Making books accessible to as many people as possible is a core tenet of librarianship. And at the Coalition for Networked Information meeting in Seattle earlier this spring, I learned that librarians ...

Modern file formats have provisions to annotate the contents of the file with descriptive information. This development is driven by the need to find a better way to organize data than merely by using ...

I got to wondering today, if there was any image format, maybe binary black/white, or greyscale, or even color, that is just raw pixels, with no metadata. Even BMP, while it has pretty minimal ...