I am a recently retired computer consultant, specialising in office automation and my partner is a taxonomist. In all our time together our careers have not really overlapped until yesterday. We recently came into a large selection of old family photographs, and decided we needed to catalogue them. I jokingly said to her how do we future proof the tagging of these photographs.
I looked into it, reading articles about EXIF metadata, (storing information in the body of a PHOTOGRAPH) , and found that that system is very out of date and that over the last 20 years da more modern system IPTC has evolved. I thought I would search on rootschat for more information, and immediately got some hits, only to find they were dated 2006. And there were only three of them. I'm really surprised that this subject hasn't come up more frequently. I'm currently researching this whole concept and will probably add feedback in due course, but in the meantime I would welcome any advice on tagging photographs in general, recommended software, and anything else relevant full stop
I would guess that this post will eventually be moved to the IT section, but I think it is something of great interest and relevance to everybody.
Martin