When you take a digital photo, the camera immediately records information about the aperture setting, shutter speed, focal length, metering mode and more. Some cameras have a global positioning system that adds information about where the photo was taken.
But David Riecks (rhymes with “clicks”) – professional photographer, digital-image technologist and metadata evangelist – believes that a digital photo should contain more information about itself. And he is on a mission to spread the word about the current and long-term value of photo metadata.
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He became intrigued by keyword search and he developed a home-grown approach to metadata, judiciously adding keywords and descriptive metadata to each digital image. If a client requested a photo of a cow in a pasture, Riecks could search his image database for the keywords “cow” and “pasture” and quickly locate any of his photos that contained those keywords. The system helped streamline his business.
See Also: See the Complete List of Digital Preservation Pioneers
Source: NDIIPP / Library of Congress
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