In almost any focused conversation about old photos, the topic of metadata comes up. Metadata is an essential tool, but honestly, it can also be confusing. Too often, people get competitive with nerdy details leaving others to feel as though they’ve somehow failed. It doesn’t have to be complicated. Join us for this FREE Tutorial Tuesday when we host community member and renowned metadata expert, Caroline Guntur as our special guest in conversation with your ProjectKin ringleader, Barbara Tien. You’ll learn how adding it to your images can be easy when it’s a routine part of your workflow. As a conversation, we’ll highlight the key elements that make it important to your family history projects …
Metadata Best Practices Report
In 2022-2023, the Metadata Working Group analyzed metadata guidelines and best practices across hubs, summarizing them in the Metadata Best Practices Report. The Report included a list of recommendations, which was then distributed to the hubs network for their input to help inform the direction of our future work. Please join us to discuss the Report and how we might use the findings to improve metadata practices across DPLA hubs.
Enhancing Family Photos with Metadata
The Family History Metadata Working Group (FHMWG), Savemetadata.org, is a collaboration between leaders in the family history software industry. We are working together to improve the process of preserving critical information about family photos in order to make them more valuable to the family history community. The technical term for this critical information is metadata: the who, what, where, when and how about a photo. Together, our group has developed a set of recommendations for providers in the photo software industry. These recommendations improve how the most relevant family history metadata is captured, transferred, and preserved. Our recommendations were carefully crafted in order to preserve and leverage what photo software is already designed to do. …
