It’s cool how you can drag a box over an area in a photo in Flickr and write a little note about what’s in that area that people read by mousing over it — and in Facebook, how people put boxes over each other’s heads in photos, “tagging” that area as Bob and enabling links like “pictures of Bob” and “pictures of Bob and you”.
Too bad these tags, which add so much significance and meaning to images, are dependent on complex, site-specific javascript and server-side processes and database structure – when you move a photo from site to site, all that metadata is lost.
I wonder if there’s some sort of standardized, perhaps XML-based language or something for adding metadata overlays to images. I think I heard of this somewhere… Can’t remember
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