| Name | URL | program description | implementation | Backend | Extensible? |
| Article on Image-Tagging | http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/delivering/faqtagging.html | discusses current formats (EXIF and IPTC) and future formats (XMP and JPX, JPEG2000) which promise to have embedded XML | JPEG2000 is not yet browser supported | ||
| California Digital Library | http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/ | http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/CDLObjectStd-2001.pdf for image metadata standards; each digital object is automatically assigned a unique identifier | a lot of work; these are standards and we would do the db ourselves | ||
| CERN Document Server | http://cds.cern.ch/ | huge document database, can search and edit online | no details about how it works | ||
| CONTENTdm | http://www.contentdm.com/products/overview.html | costs at least $6000; what we would use if we had lots of money and no CS dept. | |||
| Cumulus by Canto | http://www.canto.com/ | trial comes with our Nikon digicams | server alone is at least $1000, extra for clients or UNIX | ||
| CyberAll | http://research.microsoft.com/users/GBell/CACMCyberAll0101.pdf | not a database, stores all files, including images, images are stored and catalogued by folders, not individually. Folders can have multiple attributes | vaporware; appears to have been succeeded by MyLifeBrain, can only find articles and interviews, no product | ||
| EXIF FAQ | http://www.ba.wakwak.com/~tsuruzoh/Computer/Digicams/exif-e.html | describes EXIF format and lists fields, incl. GPSInfo tag, but I am unsure what would go here. | |||
| Exif-o-matic | http://www.instituteofthefuture.org/exifomatic/ | outputs EXIF to text or html file | postcardware | ||
| Exif.org | http://www.exif.org/ | There is a proposal to add GPS info to EXIF at http://www.exif.org/proposals/location.html, unsure of status | n | ||
| Exifer | http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/ | view and edit EXIF and IPTC data, preserves original EXIF "makernotes," lets you make pull-down menu lists to select for data entry, allows export of all files in a folder to .csv file for import into Excel | postcardware, very useful for end user; click here for sample Excel file, red text was filled in by me using Exifer | ||
| ExifView | http://members.cox.net/foxbat121/exifview.html | Windows shell extension (DLL) for viewing EXIF data from File Properties | easy and free, but probably not all that useful | ||
| Gallery | http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index | nice image display interface, runs on Apache web server using PHP, not a database, problems with batch upload, possibly connected to firewall, can't parse EXIF data | already implemented; free | ||
| ImagXpress | http://www.pegasusimaging.com/imagepressj2k.htm | allows batch conversion of .jpg to .jp2 | costs $50 | Photoshop | |
| Imatch by photools | http://www.photools.com/imiptc.html | has IPTC and EXIF support, creates HTML galleries, slide shows, could be used to edit info from within image, we'd likely need a way to extract this from image once on web, supports custom fields based on IPTC standard, batch editing | costs $50 per user | y? | |
| Insight by Luna Imaging | http://www.lunaimaging.com/insight/index.html | allows metadata entry/editing with Inscribe, nice GUI | can get free trial, but likely expensive, since price quote needed | ||
| IPTC Home Page | http://www.iptc.org/ | Information about NEWSML, IPTC, other standards for handling news, IPTC does have Keywords and Categories | |||
| IPTC Info Extractor | http://multipart-mixed.com/photo/iptc.html | Perl module to extract IPTC data and export to XML and SQL, may have EXIF support, may be able to handle additional fields | okay, still need good interface for data entry | ? | |
| JJ2000 | http://jj2000.epfl.ch/ | seems to only support .pgm, .ppm and .pgx file formats?? final update Sept. 2001; warning that it may not work with final version of JPEG2000 standards; also see http://jpeg2000.epfl.ch/ for updates | |||
| JPEG 2000 | http://www.jpeg.org/JPEG2000.html | embedded metadata in JP2 files (JPX), though JPX may not be supported yet | via a plugin, unsure if one is available that reads JPX format | ||
| JPEG 2000 plugin by Elysium | http://www.elysium.ltd.uk/jpeg_2000.html | plugin to view JPEG2000 file format, works with MSIE, NS and OP | |||
| OziPhotoTool by Alistair Dickie | http://home.austarnet.com.au/adcode/oziphoto.html | add GPS data to your images, no wires needed; matches time of photo to time of waypoint | free | ||
| Pandora | http://public.migrator2000.org/pandorademo/ | put a web page inside your image file, change output on page (size of image, for ex.) by changing URL | is it publicly available? | y | |
| Photoseek | http://photoseek.sourceforge.net/ | reads IPTC and possibly EXIF fields, uses SQL for searches, needs Apache and PHP to run | project still in beta | MySQL | |
| PixVue | http://www.pixvue.com/index.html | supports IPTC and XMP editing, does not support "non-standard" fields, does not appear to dstinguish between XMP and IPTC | it's free! | ||
| Portfolio by Extensis | http://www.extensis.com/portfolio/pdfs/portfolio_info.pdf | image catalog with server for publishing portfolios online, supports EXIF data, Browser is free and can be used to view but not edit images, can connect to SQL databases (supposedly) | costs $200 for personal version, $6000 for server, with free dowload for publishing portfolios online | ||
| TagGen by HiSoftware | http://www.hisoftware.com/Taggen.htm | provides interface to "wrap" metadata around image, checks metadata for errors, may be good for general user interface, contact Dana Simberkoff about demos | costs $99 | ||
| VRA Core Categories | http://www.vraweb.org/vracore3.htm | links work records to image records in database, can repeat tags, can have multiple images linked to work | a lot of work; these are standards and we would do the db ourselves | ||
| wfExifMan | http://www.wordfactory.nl/mb/g1/wfexifman.html | import EXIF data from images into Excel spreadsheet; this is an Excel macro | didn't parse right, possibly formatted for Cannon digicams; not a complete solution, but useful as a starting point for picture takers to enter metadata | ||
| XMP from Adobe | http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/xmp/download.html | open source, windows and Mac, uses C++, supported by Adobe products like Photoshop | might mean front end will be limited to Photoshop | y | |
| XMP Metadata Extraction | http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200206/imagemeta/extract/extract | short Perl script, only third example works | |||
