Search stock photos by color scheme.  Pick a color, and find pictures that match your site. I'd love to see this kind of tool hooked up to more personal photo galleries. Funny, I was only suggesting this to someone, only a week or so, before they brought out this feature. Almost as if they heard me. I wonder why they took so long in bringing it out?

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In the public sector, "many organisations have a deliberate policy not to shout too much about e-services lest they go wrong. The buzzword is "soft launch.""

The Register has more on the topic, finding a government website is hard enough (use of meta keywords and search engine rankings, I guess are ignored) you'll probably end up at a competitor which supplies something at a price - that's capitalism for you, filling in the gaps, forms cannot be half completed (cookies not used) - I get pissed off at having to download a pdf, print it off and snail mail it back. And this UKOnline crap, I think it's supposed to be THE portal for Gov. stuff, but it ain't. What the hell are eBay, Amazon and Kelkoo doing there? Any commercial site could and does provide this type of bland portal crap.

As todays study says, "the performance of UKOnline as a signpost to e-government services is disappointing".

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An image annotation tool - using Javascript to read and create RDF

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"jhead is a command line driven program for manipulating the non image parts of Exif flavour Jpeg files that most digital cameras produce."

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"Description of Exif file format"

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NITF: XML for Text The News Industry Text Format uses XML to define the structure and content of news articles (text and statistical data). It identifies structural pieces such headlines, bylines, paragraphs, table columns and footnotes. The subjects covered by the content may be indicated through the use of the IPTC Subject codes. Rich in-line markup can be applied to specify such things as organizations, events, places and people. Because metadata tags are applied throughout the news content, NITF documents are far more searchable and useful than HTML pages. NITF documents, like other news data may be contained within, or referenced from, a NewsML wrapper.

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"19 April 2002"

This note describes a project for describing & retrieving (digitized) photos with (RDF) metadata. It describes the RDF schemas, a data-entry program for quickly entering metadata for large numbers of photos, a way to serve the photos and the metadata over HTTP, and some suggestions for search methods to retrieve photos based on their descriptions.

The RDF data is stored in the JPEG file in comment blocks (blocks of type "COM", as defined by ISO DIS 10918-1). According to the JPEG standard, a comment block can contain arbitrary text. There is no way to assign a type to the text. We simply rely on the fact that RDF can easily be distinguished from plain text by heuristics. JPEG limits each comment block to 64K, but there can be as many blocks as necessary, so arbitrary amounts of text can be added. In practice, the descriptions generated by the rdfpic program are typically only a few hundred bytes long.

The rdfpic program could support the Adobe XMP format [XMP].

The rdfpic editor should read & write metadata using HTTP GET & PUT in addition to read & write from the local file system.

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Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling technology that allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata, into the file itself. With XMP, desktop applications and back-end publishing systems gain a common method for capturing, sharing, and leveraging this valuable metadata -- opening the door for more efficient job processing, workflow automation, and rights management, among many other possibilities. With XMP, Adobe has taken the "heavy lifting" out of metadata integration, offering content creators an easy way to embed meaningful information about their projects and providing industry partners with standards-based building blocks to develop optimized workflow solutions.
Adobe's SDK for XMP - Extensible Metadata Platform
And a discussion about it.

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"Aug. 30, 2000-- The Digital Imaging Group (DIG) today released the final DIG35 Metadata Specification providing a cohesive and consistent set of metadata definitions to the imaging industry.

DIG35 provides the first persistent way for digital images to become rich, completely self-contained sources of information, regardless of where they travel on the global network. With millions of digital images now produced yearly, this capability is critical for enabling users to effectively organize, find, retrieve and share their images instantly."

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"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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Imagemagick is a dog to install. One really ought be be logged in as administrator to set the permissions correctly, if however the COM still won't run then one needs to run an obscure little win app called regsvr32.

This is to register the dll called ImageMagickObject.dll, then one can run the test called ArrayTest.

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