Any Recommendation for storing and searching metadata

Question

Hi all,
We upload images to the DB and extract the DICOM, IPTC, XMP and EXIF fields in the DB as xmltypes. This works good.
Now I am wondering what the recommended way is to make these fields searchabe by the user. I have tried to create an index over those fields, which works ok, but updating them when images are uploaded or removed takes a long time (with jobs).
Also we need to write those fields back to the image. I read the reference and saw that the example suggest to write a new XML file and then write this back to the image. I only saw the example with XMP, but I guess I can do that with IPTC too, or? If so any examples? Our application allows the user to edit and add new keywords and those fields need to be stored back to the image.
TIA for any answers.

Answer 1

OK, we only support replacing Metadata in XMP format.
Also, we do not support replacing metadata with DICOM medical images.
Do you have a write up of your application? If we onderstood what you were trying to do, we would be in a better position to make recommendations, like what kind of indexing to use. If possible, you could send it to me at [email protected]
If you have interMedia requirements, send them to [email protected]
Larry