Script to add content to IPTC core metadata fields

Is there the possibility that a script could be used to add data to IPTC standard fields?
Thanks.

They've confirmed the same thing i've found, that Save For Web actually preserves a chunk of the IPTC core data, but this isn't really any good for the quality of image I need to save.
It's strange how the XMP preserve option isn't available for a standard PNG save.

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IPTC Core metadata fields lost with PNGs

Hi there,
I have a TIF file which contains data in the IPTC core fields. Converting the TIF to a JPEG will retain most of the fields and can be viewed still in Adobe Bridge.
However, converting to a PNG will lose all of the data. The only way it seems to retain metadata is to set options on the Save to Web options in Photoshop, which doesn't really work too good with a 100mb TIF being converted.
Resampling to PNG in ImageMagick and then reading in Bridge has the same issue, even though 8BIN and IPTC profiles are actually embedded into the file.
Does Bridge support IPTC core metadata for PNG files?
Many thanks!

They've confirmed the same thing i've found, that Save For Web actually preserves a chunk of the IPTC core data, but this isn't really any good for the quality of image I need to save.
It's strange how the XMP preserve option isn't available for a standard PNG save.

Do search engines make use of IPTC Core metadata?

I'm using Bridge to organise a large group of maps (the maps are JPEG images), which will be published on my organisation's website. These maps are about niche topics and very specific areas of the UK.
I'm wondering if there are any SEO benefits from adding IPTC Core metadata to these map images using Bridge? Does anyone know if search engines use the meta?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I'm talking about whether Google etc. pay any attention to the meta in the images.
My map images are exported from the source map application as JPEGs.
I'm not using a batch 'Save for web' in Photoshop, as the map images aren't designed for viewing in web pages - I'm just putting the maps up on the web to quickly share them for re-use by other people.
In Bridge, I can quickly add the basic meta (copyright notice, addresses, rights usage terms, etc.) by selecting all the JPEGs and then do the title and description individually. Just wondering if it's worth the effort?

Library filters: can I add to the list of metadata fields that I can search by?

Is it possible to add to the list of metadata fields that lightroom can search for images by?
I know about the 'Any searchable ... ' but that does now allow me to search for specific conditions -
I am using some of the IPTC fields as a way to classify images of mine for various purposes and would like to
do something like search for images where the iptc source field has a certain value while the instructions
fields has some other value. I do not think this is possible using the available tools.
So, I'd like to be able to add these fields to the menu of possible fields in Smart collections
of the library metadata filter.
So, am I missing something obvious? Can this be done?
Cheers,
Bonny

Hi Rob,
Thanks for this plug in - it's really great.
The fields I'm looking for are part of the IPTC fields, and since I'm entering them in LR, they're not part of the image,
and I assume not something that exiftool can find in the image. So unfortunately I do not think I can use this plugin
for the actual purpose I'm intending.
I'll shed some light on what I'm doing and therefore what I'm looking for:
I have a collection of images (of people) that I need to match names to.
I use some IPTC fields (that are otherwise useless for me) to store this data.
These fields are the "Job Identifier", "Instructions", "Creditline" and "Source" in the IPTC tagset.
At some point I then want to look for errors in the data entry, etc and so I need to search for various
values of those fields for validation purposes mainly.
I created a tagset using Jeffrey's plugin and it allows me to view and use only the info I'm after, but no searching.
Your plugin provides more complete functionality (tagset creation as well as the searchability). The only question
is how do I go about using your plugin to use the fields I'm using?
Cheers,
Bonny

Display the filed instructions (that´s under IPTC Core metadata).

Hi all
I´m new on programing scripts in Photoshop..and tried everything but was not able to change the script below. Let´s explain this script is found at Adobe Photoshop default folder and works to show the Camera Model used to the current image.
Now..the challenge...I want to change the scripts so when you run the it shows a field called Instructions (that´s located in the IPTC Core XMP metadata Tab. (In Photoshop > open an Image > go to File menu > File Info option and see the IPTC Core Tab > Instruction field).
Can anyone please help me to change this lines. It could look very simple for you but it´s actually very difficult to me; This base-script is what I have and works fine to display the camera model:
try {
     var xmpString = activeDocument.xmpMetadata.rawData.toString();
     var tiffModelLength = ('<tiff:Model>').length;
     var tiffModel = xmpString.search( '<tiff:Model>' );
     var tiffModelEnd = xmpString.search( '</tiff:Model>' );
     var tiffModelStr = xmpString.substr( tiffModel + tiffModelLength, tiffModelEnd - tiffModel - tiffModelLength );
     if ( tiffModelStr.length > 0 ) {
          alert( tiffModelStr + localize ( '$$$' ) );
     // check the exif
     var exifModelStr = '';
     var exifData = activeDocument.info.exif;
     for ( var i = 0; i < exifData.length; i++ ) {
          if ( exifData[i][0] == 'Model' ) {
} // try end
catch( e ) {
// always wrap your script with try/catch blocks so you don't stop production
// remove comments below to see error for debugging
// alert( e );
Thank you a lot for any help.
Gustavo.

Here is one of X's functions that should give you the information..
#target photoshop
var xmp = activeDocument.xmpMetadata.rawData;
var Instructions = parseMetadata(xmp,"photoshop:Instructions");
alert(Instructions);
function parseMetadata(xmp, tag) {
var re = new RegExp('<' + tag + '>(.+)</' + tag + '>');
var m = xmp.match(re);
if (!m) {
    re = new RegExp("<[^:]+:" + tag + ">(.+)</[^:]+:" + tag + '>');
    m = this.xmp.match(re);
return (m ? m[1] : '');

IPTC field codes -- Bridge IPTC Core metadata

Is there a reference somewhere as to which IPTC codes match up with the IPTC Core fields in Bridge metadata?
A list of the codes is here, so you know what I'm talking about. For example, the Description field in Bridge metadata corresponds to the Caption / #120 code in this list:
http://www.fotoware.com/binaries/fsp50/userguide/28.htm
I'm using a plug-in that writes image info from a database into the corresponding file's IPTC fields based on the IPTC code, but the names of the fields on the list of codes don't match up with what they're called in Bridge, so it's taking a lot of trial and error to figure out where things go.

Never mind, found one. It doesn't mention Bridge specifically, but it has Photoshop and Lightroom (along with several other image-browsing apps) and both seem similar to Bridge:
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_core_mapped.pdf

Updating Content Type from other metadata field

Hi.
In the process of creation of metadata fields a customer use a custom metadata field called 'class' to define what type the content are. The field Content Type was leave untouchble. Now they have tons of content in the same folder inside vault cause content server uses the metadata content type to create vault subfolders. What is the best way to eliminate the field class, transporting the metadata to the correct field content type and mantain the correlation of the links to the native files and weblayout files of the content? If I just update the column content type with the data in column class I believe that willl be a mess of broken links. Can anyone suggest anything?
Thank you!

Hi there,
Thought i could not comprehend all that you want, I could get that you have problem with a meta data filed.
Instead of using "Content Type" earlier contributors used "class" and now you want to chagne the "class" field with appropriate value of "Content Type".
This can be done provided the original "class" type was used intellegently by using following steps
1) depending on various values of class(e.g. all document for which class=A) created exports using archiver, also deleted them same time.
2) Import the archiver created in step one and prove an input map for the "class" field to appropriate value as "Content Type"(content type =B)
In this way all content items with class=A would be converted into content type=B.
Hope that helps you.
regards,
sapan

Add "Softproof" as a searchable Metadata field or attribute

Eventually I expect that I will have a lot of Softproof copies on my hard drive, and will inevitably want to quickly identify those copies. Going through each individual photo in Lightroom and looking at the Copy Name is not very fast.
Ideally as a Metadata searchable field, the system would group and classify all Softproofs by printer color profile. Identifying all Softproofs for a specific paper and/or specific printer would be a snap.
Alternatively a searchable attribute "Softproof" which could quickly identify the Softproofs (or non-proofs if I negate it).
I note that currently the Copy name may be searched as a text field. If I enter the search criteria "Copy name" "Contains" "icc" I can pulll up my softproof copies. It would be far superior if I could use Metadata or Attribute.
Scott

Thank-you for the note ... I didn't realize that Is "Proof" had been added as a filter field in Smart Collections.
This is certainly a good work around, which I will use.
If "Proof" is an attribute of the photo (and/or virtual copy) then I still feel that it would be desirable as a criteria in the Library Filters. Until then I will use the Smart Collection (and "Copy Name" field search)
Scott

Copy file name to IPTC (core) Instructions

Hello
In the past Paul has written some great scripts to autuomate my Bridge workflow. I'm hoping for another brilliant concoction.
I wish to copy my file name to the IPTC core- 'Instructions' field so that the original name will be preserved somewhere in case renaming more than once wipes that file name out of the File Properties palette.
Thanks!
Don

I have Bridge CS2 and CS3 and for some reason the CS3 version has the "Preserve Filename..." checkbox grayed out and I cannot figure out why. I was also looking for a way to view the "Preserved Filename..." and the only way I could do this was by using Bridge CS2 (since it isn't working for me in CS3), going to rename the file I am trying to view the old name on, and select "Preserved Filename" under the dropdown menu. This is a huge hastle and for some reason Lightroom 1.0 does not have the capability of preserving filenames at all! The DAM capabilities of Lightroom truly need work, but it is a wonderful application nonetheless, and I use it now for everything and haven't needed to use Bridge since I got Lightroom.

Filtering on IPTC Core

Hi guys,
Is it possible to customise the filter eg. to use any of the IPTC Core fields? or is it possible to search for specific fields in IPTC Core? Can the filter categories (filter pane -> icon top right) be modified? I don't use the ones listed. Can the search criteria list be modified?
Specifically, I've been hoping to use the Country field of IPTC Core and then filter by it; but if this can't be done I could start putting countries in as keywords?
The nearest I've found is to use the All Metadata criteria in Search.
Ben

yeah, thanks Curt. It seems that way.
Similarly, I note that only some fields are available in the thumbnail view, and some of the IPTC Core metadata could be useful here too.

UCM Metadata modeling - Complex metadata field

Hi,
We are currently in the process of modeling our UCM for our enterprise webcenter application.
We have a requirement where a metadata field may have non-straigthforward values.
We have a table called worklocation_table with rows of data such as
Columns : | doc id | office | city | province | country
row 1 : | 1 | 12 Ave | NY | NY | USA
row 2 : | 1 | Buffalo | NY | NY | USA
row 3 : | 2 | Stn 2 | Edmonton | AB | Canada
We want a metadata field xWorklocationMetadata which associates a document with a one to many relationship with worklocaton_table.
So if we have a docMeta table in UCM
Columns : | dId | xWorklocationMetadata
row 1 : | 1 | 1
row 2 : | 2 | 2
But the problem will be with searching ? How will the search understand a foreign key relationship between docMeta and xWorkLocationMetadata ?
How should we approach our modeling ? Are they any features in UCM that will allow us to do that. Our main concern is
searching, metadata management and ease of development.
Thanks,
Sunil
Middleware Developer
Edited by: user9138987 on Nov 8, 2012 9:19 AM
Edited by: user9138987 on Nov 8, 2012 9:20 AM
Edited by: user9138987 on Nov 8, 2012 9:24 AM

How about changing your database scheme a bit?
a) one table (documents) with the primary key dId - in fact, dId is for revisions, not documents, but be it
b) the other table (worklocations) with its own primary key - No doc id there!!! (it is not a property of the worklocations, but of a document, or of a binding)
c) the third table (binding) which will contain many:many relationship between docs and locations (your data suggests that the relationship is rather many:many rather than one:many as doc_id 1 is in both 12 Ave and Buffalo; one:many would actually be even easier)
Now, the third table can be replaced by a custom metadata; one:many is a peanut - each doc is in just one location, so you can add the location as a metadata field. With many:many, it could be a bit trickier - OOTB you could go with Multiselect List, but if you have a lot of worklocations, the user experience might be too bad. Therefore, probably some customization (and why not keeping the binding in a separate table, then?) would be needed anyway.
Either way, check what schemes http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/doc.1111/e10978/c04_metadata.htm#DAFEDBBA can do for you.

CS5, IPTC core, only author is showing in content

Metadata>IPTC core>creator, job title......>apply. Only the creator s name is showing in content, (as author) not the other items. Any clue why?
Thanks

First of all, where I am: Bridge, I opened up a folder, clicking on the
metadata tab gives a dark gray panel with the thumbnails listed on the left,
What you call the metadata tab I think is in fact the Metadata workspace?
(To my own opinion the Metadata workspace is very useless, but that aside)
My purpose: to make sure that the person on the other end of the mail gets the
captions. I figured out a good part of it , but not all.
In preferences, all the options are checked, so basically I can "write"
anything i want, but I only need title and author.
The preferences for Bridge metadata gives you option to check or uncheck but
that is only to see the lines that you check are visible in the metadata
panel. If you have the option 'hide empty fields' also checked (by default
on) the fields that have no info in it will not show.
But the IPTC in the file info is still having all this fields written to it.
I found out that if I write those (description and author) in Photoshop
file\info, they appear simultaneously in Bridge in both the the lighter gray
panel to the left, in the white fiels with the pencils, AND next to the
thumbnails, in the dark gray panel.
Bridge just reflects the info you have filled in, only the main window of
the Metadata Workspace does show very little of the content and you are not
able to select what info you want to show next to the thumbs Hence my
'useless' qualification...)
The metadata panel itself however can be of great help for you. You can make
a template for the IPTC / file info. This can be done in both PS and Bridge.
For PS open File info and fill in the fields that you think will need the
same info for every file (your name address copyright etc ) and when done
click export.
For Bridge (where you can also open file info) you have the ability to use
the metadata panel. Top right of the panel is a small icon that provides you
a fly out menu. Here you can choose to create a template but also you can
choose to add a template (when having a template created).
This is a major time saver that let's you add the same info you want to add
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.
Now the files need some time to save but all the data is there!
Having multiple files that need the same description/caption you only have
to select those files and in the editable fields in the metadata IPTC core
section you can write this once and they are written to all the selected
files when done.
Besides that Batch rename (tools/batch rename) let you create a really easy
to use naming convention with auto adding sequence number shot date and a
lot more options.
What is left for me to understand: if my data is embedded from file\info, and
to be more precise it should be file\info\save for web because it seems that a
different title in save for web prevails over file\info
Not sure I understand this, you mean the mobile SFW tab in file info? Or the
file after having used the save for web option to create a file for web??
I verify that the data is there, which means that I dont have to write
nothing anymore, so what is the purpose of the lighter gray panel with the
little pencils?
Those fields let you add custom info to the metadata if you should wish so.
Preferable you should fill in as much as possible in the IPTC using the
template.
Leaving you with only having to add a few fields with custom info that
changes per file/subject. Description, keywords, date created, City, state,
country are fields that can be read by many applications and also will be
used to search for files using phrases or keywords.
What is confusing, is that, and I rephrase the old question, if you write
creator in the IPTC core next to the little pencil, that will appear next to
the thmbnail in the dark gray panel, if the thumbnail is selected of course,
but the next item, job title will not appear, even if I click on apply at the
bottom of the pencils.
If this is still about the metadata workspace forget about it. If you fill
in that field or have filled it in using a template and it shows in the
metadata panel it is saved in there

Loading metadata via iptc core using Bridge

I've noticed that after loading metadata into photos opened in PS (cs5) that when checking the "file info" for that photo, the metadata isn't showing up. Wonder what I should do differently?

Does checking the "apply" check mark actually SAVE the photo with the newly applied metadata?
It took me a while to understand your workflow but you seem to use the metadata workspace and with apply you mean the tiny green checkmark icon bottom right in the metadata panel, which is not the same as a template btw, you can create a template with basic info using the little menu icon top right in the metadata panel. Changing this template every time would not be needed if you use the panel itself on multiple selected files.
You can either choose to add the template upon import using Photodownloader or select the files and choose add template from the same drop down menu top right of the panel.
Then you can use the fields in the panel itself to add extra data (besides the basic copyright info e.g added with the template) for the selected files in one go or select a given number that needs other info.
I never used it that way before but yes, when having filled all the wanted fields with your custom data you can indeed use the green checkmark and this should save the info to the files that are selected.
You have to have read and write permissions and the files shouldn't be locked.
But instead of the tiny icon in the metadata workspace (to my opinion a next to useless default workspace that can't be altered the way it should be possible) I always use my custom workspace (large preview, large content panel with larger thumbs, a column with folders, filter collections and favorites and a metadata panel with IPTC core in view) and after having filled the lines I want I hit the enter key to save the changes.
As said, only the selected files are saved with the data and you have to wait for the activity bar (bottom left) to finish the job before starting a new one because sometimes this causes half of the the files not being saved with the correct and complete info.

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