Image files again
John Bewley
I am familiar with Rowan Brownlee’s adaptation of XTF for the display of image files. I am writing to hopefully confirm a couple of assumptions and I apologize in advance if the answers are explicit in Rowan’s guide and I failed to see it.
- In order to make the image files accessible (able to be indexed and displayed), Rowan created a separate metadata record for each image. This is based on his list of directories:
data/sca/records
media/sca/images/powerpoint
media/sca/images/thumbs
media/sca/images/view
media/sca/images/zoom
media/sca/video
- The creation of separate metadata files is necessary because metadata embedded in image files, in whatever format (IPTC, Exif), is not separately indexable within XTF.
Am I correct that there is not a method to configure XTF to directly index embedded image metadata making it necessary to create stand-alone metadata files for all images? I’ve already created a local instance in which creation of the accompanying metadata files is chiefly automated based on export of the embedded metadata, but just wanted to make sure it was a necessary step at all.
Thanks,
John