Iptc and xmp, data important for organizing photos?

HI, I keep encountering these two acronyms (IPTC and XMP) while working with my photos in Aperture.  Are these data important, should I be doing anything with it?  Essentially what I am doing is, after importing photos from iPhoto, I am filing to Folders, Projects, and Albums (some Smart). Thanks

Astechman,
EXIF (which you didn't ask about) is Exchangable Interchange Format, and those fields are generally physical attributes about your photos, as recorded by your camera.  Things like date/time, aperture, shutter speed, etc.  Some people like to think they should be able to change those, but that doesn't make any sense (except if your camera's clock is wrong.)
IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) data is used in digital media as metadata for the author to put things.  These include things like keywords, location narratives, copyright notice, photographer name.  I.e., things that don't have anything to do with the camera or the physical attributes of the photo, but about the subject/content of the photo or the photographer.
XMP adds onto IPTC, and is often associated with a "sidecar" file, in which a digital asset manager system (DAMS) saves extra metadata to such a file.  (Aperture is a DAMS, but it does not use sidecar files; it keeps data like that within the library.)
As for what you should be doing with it -- that's up to you.  How much metadata do you want associated with your photos?  Fill in those fields and just ignore the rest.  I tend to fill in keywords and copyright, and that's about it, but there are many other fields that may be of interest to you.
nathan

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