wombat.ch

Hello

There are so many nice tool out there to show Images in Homepage.

But why most are not using the
"IPTC-NAA-Standard"
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTC-NAA-Standard

Basically to use the

Headline 256 Characters
Caption/ Abstract 2000 Character
Keywords no limitation (one keyword ist max 64 Characters)
Copyright 128 Characters
Categories

This would be the basics to have, you could add more too ...

This information would be written and kept inside of a picture (Photo or Graphic).
Tools like Irfanview (as a free tool) gives the opportunity to add this Information

Imagine
adding a picture to a content and just by click you could add the titel/Copyright below

the Picture.
As soon as you click on the picture and it pop-up show Title - Caption - Copyright just

read out of the picture.

It would be much better then always to keep a xml or other file with this information.

some links with Information about reading out the information

http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/exif/

http://php.net/manual/de/function.exif-read-data.php

http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Maybe in the future you could add a Picture to a content not by selecting the Picture
itself but you could as example
"add 3 Picture; Radom; 250px width; Keyword: world, people, symbolic;"
this would add 3 Picture holding the 3 keywords world, people, symbolic and show them
250px large. of course on click you could pop-up the picture

or maybe
"add Picture; 250px width; Categories: Holiday2013;"
This would show all your picture in the Categories Holiday2013
would be nice to select a picture and start a slide show too

ask, if you need some more information - and just stay to the iptc standard

have a nice day
vincent