Read XMP/IPTC data

Hello all-
I am reading data out of a JPEG. Specifically the EXIF and
IPTC data. One of the fields I want is iptc.intellectualGenre.
Unfortunately- I cannot get to that with the
imageGetIPTCMetadata(thispic) function. That field just seems to be
missing. But according to the IPTC people, it is part of their
core.
Okay, now step two...using an outside program, (PIE) I can
see that it pushes Intellectual Genre to the XMD section. Alas, I
cannot read XMD at all.
Is there a fairly simple way to read XMD, or just the
IPTC.IntellectualGenre?
Thanks-
Karl
(oh, and going to the Adobe XMD Dev site has not helped me at
all...)

karlkrist wrote:
> I am reading data out of a JPEG. Specifically the EXIF
and IPTC data. One of
> the fields I want is iptc.intellectualGenre.
dumb question but is that data in the image? i just tested
against
http://www.drewnoakes.com/code/exif/sampleOutput.html
& cf produces the same
output as that lib (it should as cf's EXIT & IPTC
metadata is based on his java
lib).
also when did this tag & the "core" bits get released?
after that lib?
btw the EXIF data differed in tag names (the GPS bits
mainly).

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Caption & Kepyword, leaving just State (or other
fields which don't seem to be even present). One can
de-select the major categories of Keywords, Caption,
IPTC, etc. but not the subcategories. This is the
problem I'm running into -- no way to just add
additional data in select fields.
Unless I'm missing something.
Indeed! Aperture does not make this at all obvious, but with any line highlighted in the Lift & Stamp HUD just hit the "delete" key and that line is gone. If you delete a category (line with a checkbox) the whole category goes, if you expand a category you can delete individual lines, whatever you like. Also very handy for adjustment stamping when you don't want to stamp a clone job, just white balance.
It remembers what you have removed until you do another Lift.

After editing file in ACR 8.6 (Mac) , the file (NEF and XMP) modification dates are not updated

With both my Mac's, reset Photoshop C (2014) to previous version 2014.0. Now find that after editing file in ACR 8.6 (Mac) , the file (NEF and XMP) modification dates are not updated. Reloaded camera raw, etc., but still find modification dates are not updated, either using Finder or using Bridge to view dates. Editing other files, PSD, DNG, TIFF, etc., are updated and the information is correctly displayed.

Ok, not entirely sure what I did but it's now working (Bizarre!). The only thing I did was 'eject' the ACR 8.6 .dmg file from the finder side bar and restart PS CC, so that may have been where I was going wrong all along!
However, I now have another issue in that there is no preview of the shot in Finder on my iMac when I highlight the NEF file. I assume this is simply because Apple haven't yet released an update for the new D810 NEF files and so the computer doesn't know what it's looking at?!?
If anyone has any other ideas though, then I'm more than willing to listen.
Thanks again.

IPTC Date Created only imports for October

I'm creating JPEGS with only IPTC and EXIF data in and the field 2:55 Date Created only seems to appear in the File Info / Origin / Date Created in CS4 if the date is set to october??
Manually editing the jpeg file, for example 20081007 works but 20080907 fails, even if I change the remaining EXIF and IPTC date fields to match
I dont suppose anyone has any ideas as this is driving me nuts!
Thanks
Derek

No, that changes the Date on the EXIF panel, in my case the date the scans were made. I want that date to stand and the IPTC Date Created date changed.
Probably doesn't matter anyway, since I have just discovered that changes I make in Aperture IPTC metadata cannot be written to the master copy. At least not for TIFF files. Strangely, it does seem to work for jpgs.
Too bad. I liked some Aperture features.

Option for IPTC "Date Created" field to be auto-populated?

Hi,
The date of capture is held within the "Date Time Original" field in the EXIF data; but the IPTC "Date Created" field is blank.
Currently i have to fill this in manually if i want it populated (which i have to do for a certain customer, for hundreds of differently dated images) but i would really like a "replicate" button by which i can auto-populate this field; or someother easy workaround that i might be missing here?!?
thanks,

Hmm, both LR 3.6 and LR 4.0 normally set IPTC:DateCreated to be the same as EXIF:DateTimeOriginal, both on export and when you do Metadata > Save To File.
Perhaps you could post a culprit image here (use the camera icon) to see what might be going on with you.

Java application to read XMP.

Would it be possible then to have a Java application reading through the files with XMP embedded and displaying the information?

Hi Ana, sorry I didn't read your reply earlier, maybe it would have been usefull. There is no e-mail notification on this forum. Now I solved my problem with iView MediaPro and AppleScript. iView can read the "caption" data from the XMP of Photoshop 7 created files.
Here's my script (not very beautiful mind you, it's the first AS I ever wrote), the comments are in sweidish my native toungue if anyone wonders. Maybe someone else in my situation will benefit from this...
tell application "iView MediaPro"
set selectedID to the selection of window 1
set numItems to the number of items in selectedID
-- loopa genom de valda filerna
repeat with i from 1 to numItems
set j to item i of the selectedID
set origPath to the path of object j of window 1
tell application "iView MediaPro"
--hämta filens namn
copy the name of object j of window 1 to myFileName
-- ta bort suffixet ".jpg"
set KollaAntal to count characters of myFileName
set myFileNameB to characters 1 thru (KollaAntal - 4) of myFileName
-- här hämtar vi "caption"/bildtexten
copy the caption of object j of window 1 to extractedText
end tell
-- spara informationen som textfil
set thePath to path to startup disk as string
set theData to extractedText
set fileRef to (open for access file (thePath & myFileNameB & ".txt") with write permission)
set eof fileRef to 0
write theData to fileRef
close access fileRef
end repeat -- här slutar loopen
end tell
-- lite user feedback, ingen egentlig betydelse, men "känns bra"
tell application "Finder"
display dialog "Skriptet har utförts" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon note
end tell

IViewMedia Aperture 2.1 Sync IPTC Data

Hi, I just have realized,
because of the missing Annoture Update, I have to annotated all pictures in Aperture again.
Now when I played around withe the new “EXIF Update from Master” in AP2.1, maybe it could help.
I just realized, if I sync the data back to the RAW or JPEG files in iVIew, nearly all IPTC will be automaticaly updated in AP2.1 (without clicking Update EXIF from Master).
The only big problem is, the keywords and rest of annotations in AP2.1 don’t merge and will be displaced from the new synced data from iView Media.
The good thing is, the wrong IPTC date code is also displaced from iViewMedia so you will have the right IPTC date in Photoshop and GraphicConverter.
Conclusion: AP2.1. still haven’t a proper/complete IPTC code, be aware by syncing!
P.S. If you just use the new “Update EXIF from Master” command in AP, without sync the data in iView back to the masters, the keywords and other annotations won‘t be touched.

1st Don't panic. I have a 55,000 image database which started acting flakey.
I have some disk tools which anyone should have if working with critical data. Remember the Library is not a single file.. if you look inside it's just a series of folders. You may or may not do what I did depending on the level of safety needed. I'm a wedding photographer and it had to be high since I am working on some pictures.
1: Used "Data Rescue II" to make an image of the 500gig mybook drive to another drive. Attached to the Library and made sure I could see it.
2: Ran Apples Disk Util.. and it couldn't fix
3: Ran Drive Warrior and it fixed the drive tables (original disk)
4: Ran Apples Disk Util.. it worked with no errors
5: Opened Aperture slow but running
I found the last import of pictures had some corrupted pictures. I moved that project to another drive by dragging the project. Then I deleted the project from the library (remember I still have a backup)
6: Opened Aperture and rebuilt the database
7: Rebuilt the Vault (backup)
8: I am running "iDefrag" now to defrag all the little file pieces in the library
remember - be methodical always think and make sure you have a backup... if nothing else export to DVD files.

Importing IPTC data into LR database

I have a many jpeg images on my HD that have basic IPTC data incorporated. Just to set the scene, in the system I used to set this up, I have a short 'Title', such 'Peter enjoying a meal in Venice" and a more wordy description, such as 'This restaurant overlooks the Grand Canal with St Maggiore on the other side. Superb meal consisting of: etc'. For IPTC transalation, I set 'Title' = IPTC Headline (and for a reason to do with the system, IPTC Object Name); 'Description' = IPTC Caption/Abstract. (These are the IPTC tags provided by the system).
For importing into LR, I have set up an IPTC preset to include Basic Info - Caption, IPTC Content - Headline, IPTC Status - Title. The successfully imports my short 'Title', but NOT the description.
Can anyone please advise how I can import the description.
Peter

You can store the list of data from the Excel sheet that you have read already into an ArrayList
Then go through the JDBC tutorial, and learn how to insert a single record into the table.
After you understand how to insert a single record, you can iterate through the ArrayList of data and insert them into the table in the database.
If you know JDBC, see if you can use OR Mapping frameworks like Hibernate or iBatis, they make it very easy to manage database in Java.

How to read XMP metadata of an indd file using Actionscript

Hi All,
I am trying to read XMP metadata of an indd file using CS Extension Builder in Flash Builder 4.5.
The documentation has many class like XMPmeta, XMPStruct, etc.
I have got the currently opened document in InDesign as follows:
var myDoc:Document = InDesign.app.activeDocument();
And a new XMPmeta object is created as follows:
var myXMP:XMPMeta = new XMPMeta();
How to initialize document's xmp metadata in the XMPMeta object? Or is there any other way to get the XMP metadata of currently opened document in InDesign?

I have found that the XMP data of an InDesign document can be retrieved in actionscript as follows:
InDesign.app.activeDocument.metadataPreferences
This returns the MetadataPreference object.
But I am not able to iterate each namespace in the xmp. There isn't any XMPFile class which allows me to serialize the object to xml file so that I can iterate all elements in the XMP.
I could not relate class like XMPMeta, XMPProp, etc. with the MetaDataPreference class. So, how to obtain the entire xmp packet from the MetadataPreference object?
Can anyone shed light on this?

Is writing IPTC data in JPG files a lossless operation?

When an opened JPG files is resaved it is lossy.
In Bridge the file is not opened but is still resaved after entering IPTC data.

I don't know for sure, but I don't see why it shouldn't be a lossless operation. Image data shouldn't be touched, and the metadata will just be appended to the file.

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