IPTC Core Contact standards?

Hi All.
Not sure if this is a good question for the forum but is there any standard for what belongs in the IPTC Core Contact section? Is this the purview of the photographer or the design-builder in the case of architecture or how does one handle this? I mean, assuming that the copyright info regarding the photo is included and the contact for the photographer is already included.
Thanks for any guidance.

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Preview should be able to do this
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It's been a while since you posted your message, but here's the info in the event you haven't already found it:
http://www.iptc.org/IPTC4XMP/index.php
I just started digging into XMP a few days ago and am planning to write software to add/read info from image files for the automagic creation of web pages. I've been using Adobe's XMP SDK and would be very interested in hearing how you wrote your code.
Cheers,
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Is this is a known bug, where can I see a list of other known bugs in metadata handling?
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Another question: in iView, I was used to being able to merge the metadata that I had entered with the fields in the file, where either information in the file or in iView would 'win' in the merger. How should I do such an operation in Aperture?

Same here. I checked on my iMac and an MBP in Aperture 3.4.1, MacOS X 10,8.2, and I see the same. Aperture exports the legacy contacts field, but it does not show it in the versions when importing an image.
However, when I check the imported original/master image file, the IPTC field is not erased - the version just does not reflect the data stored in the legacy contacts field.
Something else I notice, is that when I fill in the name of a face, this name is added as one of the IPTC Keywords.
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Keywords? or do you mean IPTC tags? The keywords are a special kind of metadata tags, and I do not see the "faces" names in the Aperture keywords. In which tag do you see them?
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Is this is a known bug, where can I see a list of other known bugs in metadata handling?
I have not seen this bug reported before, and do not know of any list of known bugs.
How soon it will be fixed? And will I then be able re-read my metadata from the original files?
Write a bug-report to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html
They should be told, that users still depend on this legacy tag, otherwise the chances are slim that they will bother to fix it - the name "legacy" clearly indicates that this metadata tag is doomed and only supported for compatibility reasons.
Your imported originals/masters still have this field and carry the data - at least mine do - so you might consider to write an Automator service to access them with a shell script using exiftool.
But it might be easier in the long run to simply copy these data to a different tag that is still supported.
in iView, I was used to being able to merge the metadata that I had entered with the fields in the file
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Léonie

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I really hope someone out there can help me out here because I'm at my wit's end!!!!
I have a bunch of raw files in a folder, these are just pictures I took for a bit of general practice over Christmas.
Now, whilst trying to modify the IPTC Core Fields (basically adding my name and my email address to the pictures), it worked fine for most of the pictures, but for some reason it will not work for the last 20. This is driving me nuts. :(
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OK, rant over :)
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to all your files in one go. Select the files you want to alter and choose
append metadata and click on the template you want to add.
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Besides that Batch rename (tools/batch rename) let you create a really easy
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to be more precise it should be file\info\save for web because it seems that a
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Strange
If you can add metadata to the IPTC fields in PSCS you must see them in Bridge and also should you be able to edit the fields that have the pencil icon at the end in the metadata panel.
To be sure could you try to develop and save a raw file from your own production in ACR using the 16 bit option and see if you can edit this files at the desired places?
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