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CEPIC to host 2nd annual meta data conference in Malta
At last year’s CEPIC Conference in Florence, CEPIC added a special one-day conference dedicated specifically to the topic of metadata – descriptive and identifying text information that accompanies digital photographs—hosted in partnership with the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) and the European news and media trade organization, IFRA. Building on the success of last year’s metadata meeting, the thee organizations will hold a second meta-data conference in Malta on June 5, 2008, called “Metadata for Better Business.”
"Metadata is critical to photo business by providing important information about the image and by describing it properly and that’s why we have been cooperating very closely with IPTC in the recent years" - states Alan Smith, the CEPIC President. "The maximum added value will only be achieved if the metadata are precise and reliable. But how can we apply metadata to avoid ambiguity and misunderstandings among our customers?"
The event focusing exclusively on photo metadata will again bring together major players from the photo business: creator and users, from freelance photographers to photo editors of global news providers; prominent maintainers of photo metadata standards; and the makers of cameras and imaging software.
"It is important that Metadata provide information about each picture and the copyright owner. It is more and more difficult to prove who is the copyright owner when there is a dispute and the matter turns up in court", says Staffan Teste, chairman of the technical committee of CEPIC and the Committee Member that represents CEPIC in IPTC. "In the new IPTC-fields there is a new field with unique ID-information about each picture. Something that people in the business have been longing for many years. We are glad that IPTC and IFRA are helping the picture industry in those matters".
For more information, please go to the CEPIC web-site.
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