Presented by Steve Tatum at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 18th - April 21st, 2012, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Session: Embedded metadata in cultural image collections and beyond Over the past few years visual resources professionals have increasingly been using embedded metadata as an effective way to collect initial cataloging data, to ensure the delivery of key information with images, to archive image information, and to link VRA Core 4 with other schemas in the larger digital imaging environment. The activities and case study examples presented by panel members will include improving workflow efficiency within visual resources operations and developing ongoing relations with the International Press Telecommunications Council, a pioneer in embedding metadata into images. While this work addresses the immediate needs of visual resources for art, architecture, and related fields, it simultaneously looks outward to the increasing interoperability of all digital materials available in library collections and on the world wide web. ORGANIZER & MODERATOR: Steve Tatum, Virginia Tech PRESENTERS: 1: Sheryl Frisch, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 2: Joshua Lynn and Heidi Raatz, Minneapolis Institute of Arts 3: Gregory Reser, University of California, San Diego 4: Steve Tatum, Virginia Tech

1. Mobile Cataloging
Steve Tatum
Visual Resources Curator
Art and Architecture Library
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

2. Field Notes
At the site with an
iPhone

3. Evernote
Photo taken in the app
Evernote is a cloud service that requires a subscription to use notes off line

4. Voice recording and text
included with the note

5. Location of the note is
shown when there is an
internet connection
The iPhone does not require a
connection to record a location, only
to download the map.

6. Thumbnail view of notes

7. GPS devices give a more
precise location
Garmin screen shots

8. Track log from a Garmin
View of a desktop program

9. OCR for labels
and signs

10. Wall label, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia

11. FotoNote

16. METADATA
Hotel, Coffee Shop, WIFI
with an iPad

17. Suggested procedure
Write xmp side cars on the iPad.
Join the side cars with raw files from the
camera at home on a computer.

18. Bridge uses xmp side cars to write IPTC for raw files

19. Writing IPTC core for xmp files using PhotosInfo Pro
Select camera images from an import album

29. Home Again
Embedding metadata in master files
with a computer

30. iTunes
Save the export folder to the computer

31. Import xmp from the Import raw files from the
iPad camera

32. Copy xmp files to the image folder

33. Bridge before copying xmp to the image folder

34. Bridge after copying xmp files to the image folder

35. Final Steps
Embedding the metadata
Convert the raw images to tif or another format that
supports embedded metadata
If you are using track logs for GPS
Add the data points to the photos after converting
the raw files and embedding the metadata

36. More Information
Metadata Deluxe Wiki
http://metadatadeluxe.pbworks.com/w/page/49203730/Ap
ple%20iPad
All photos by the author
Portrait of Thomas Eakins by Elizabeth Macdowell Eakins is public domain
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37. Thanks to Gallery
Systems for making the
panel possible!