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Using metadata to sort and find images in a catalogue

Using metadata to sort and find images in a catalogue

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Using metadata to sort and find images in a catalogue

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- As digital photographers, we're all accustomed to our images coming into our computers with metadata. That's the date and time, exposure information and all sorts of other stuff that you're camera automatically records into an image. Now, you may have sitting deep in the back of a closet somewhere, a box full of a bunch of old photos, analog photos, which you may never have thought of is the value of adding metadata to those images. Sitting here with my friend Jim Hyde who has thought about that. Jim, you thought about that to a fairly obsessive compulsive degree here. - Thank you, I think so. - And the result is actually really interesting. What have you got here? - Well, I've been working on this personal project that involves scanning literally thousands of items from my family archives. My dad was into radio and musical theater in the 20s and 30s and then later we had a recording studio, so I have all of…

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