Metadata Standards Now Available to the Digital Image Industry - - ADVISOR.com - -

"The Digital Imaging Group (DIG) has announced the release of DIG35, the digital imaging industry's XML metadata standard, available for download from the DIG Web site.

Metadata can be used to organize -- and efficiently search -- images. Businesses can quickly retrieve the image they're looking for by searching the associated metadata to locate and image and read the descriptive elements. DIG35 uses XML as the recommended encoding method to make it Internet-ready and easy to implement on e-commerce sites.

DIG35 member companies, such as HP, Eastman Kodak Company, Microsoft Corporation, and Fuji Photo Film Co., worked for 18 months to create a robust platform agnostic, application and file format independent set of metadata for describing the elements of an image.

Tony Henning, senior analyst at Future Image, describes the importance of metadata to the industry. "Metadata is absolutely crucial to managing your assets. It is perhaps more valuable than the object it describes. It is your intellectual capital."

"The DIG35 standard marks a significant advancement in the digital imaging industry as it addresses the need for an effective, standardized way to manage the growing number of digital images, and ultimately enable the realization of their potential value," says Lisa Walker, president of the DIG. "The next step for the DIG is to educate developers and industry leaders about this pivotal new standard to ensure rapid and widespread industry adoption."

According to Kats Ishii of Canon Inc. and chair of the DIG35 Initiative Group, "DIG35 will not only help to avoid the digital equivalent of a 'shoebox' of images, but will also allow for business and professional users to easily find and repurpose existing images, therefore, saving valuable time and money on imaging projects.""

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