Talk:IPTC Information Interchange Model

The links to programs supporting image metadata manipulation may be considered spam and has been marked as such. However, an overview of programs supporting extracting or editing embedded image metadata is highly valuable information. The extent to which of a software handles descriptive image metadata is rather difficult to obtain from software descriptions and cannot be sought by simply keyword search. Until this information is available elsewhere, I would prefer this overview to remain in Wikipedia. -- Vigilius (talk) 23:19, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Lead Section's organization
The Lede's opening paragraphs are a list of abstract (as in too vague) facts and truisms, history and intentions, not a definition nor an explanation of what it is in the real world. It would be far more clear if it started with something like; "a subset found broad worldwide acceptance..." Quoting:

The Information Interchange Model (IIM) is a file structure and set of metadata attributes that can be applied to text, images and other media types. It was developed in the early 1990s by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) to expedite the international exchange of news among newspapers and news agencies.

The full IIM specification includes a complex data structure and a set of metadata definitions.

Although IIM was intended for use with all types of news items — including simple text articles — a subset found broad worldwide acceptance as the standard embedded metadata used by news and commercial photographers. Information such as the name of the photographer, copyright information and the caption or other description can be embedded either manually or automatically.

IIM metadata embedded in images are often referred to as "IPTC headers", and can be easily encoded and decoded by most popular photo editing software.

Please consider MOS:BEGIN, MOS:LEAD and MOS:INTRO. Cheers!  --2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:35E7:576D:803C:9EB8 (talk) 18:17, 29 June 2018 (UTC)Doug Bashford