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IPTCIPTC — Information Interchange Model (IIM) / International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) |
Functions
TrackerIptcData * | tracker_iptc_new () |
void | tracker_iptc_free () |
gboolean | tracker_iptc_read () |
Description
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.
The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) has largely superseded IIM's file structure, but the IIM image attributes are defined in the IPTC Core schema for XMP and most image manipulation programs keep the XMP and non-XMP IPTC attributes synchronized.
This API is provided to remove code duplication between extractors using these standards.
Functions
tracker_iptc_new ()
TrackerIptcData * tracker_iptc_new (const guchar *buffer
,gsize len
,const gchar *uri
);
This function takes len
bytes of buffer
and runs it through the
IPTC library.
Parameters
buffer |
a chunk of data with iptc data in it. |
|
len |
the size of |
|
uri |
the URI this is related to. |
Returns
a newly allocated TrackerIptcData struct if IPTC data was
found, NULL
otherwise. Free the returned struct with
tracker_iptc_free()
.
Since 0.10
tracker_iptc_free ()
void
tracker_iptc_free (TrackerIptcData *data
);
Frees data
and all TrackerIptcData members. NULL
will produce a
a warning.
Since 0.10
tracker_iptc_read ()
gboolean tracker_iptc_read (const unsigned char *buffer
,size_t len
,const gchar *uri
,TrackerIptcData *data
);
tracker_iptc_read
has been deprecated since version 0.9. and should not be used in newly-written code.
Use tracker_iptc_new()
instead.
This function takes len
bytes of buffer
and runs it through the
IPTC library. The result is that data
is populated with the IPTC
data found in uri
.
Parameters
buffer |
a chunk of data with iptc data in it. |
|
len |
the size of |
|
uri |
the URI this is related to. |
|
data |
a pointer to a TrackerIptcData struture to populate. |
Since 0.8
Types and Values
TrackerIptcData
typedef struct { gchar *keywords; gchar *date_created; gchar *byline; gchar *credit; gchar *copyright_notice; gchar *image_orientation; gchar *byline_title; gchar *city; gchar *state; gchar *sublocation; gchar *country_name; gchar *contact; } TrackerIptcData;
Structure defining IPTC data.
Members
gchar * |
Keywords. |
|
gchar * |
Date created. |
|
gchar * |
Byline. |
|
gchar * |
Credits. |
|
gchar * |
Copyright. |
|
gchar * |
Image orientation. |
|
gchar * |
Byline title. |
|
gchar * |
City. |
|
gchar * |
State. |
|
gchar * |
Sublocation. |
|
gchar * |
Country. |
|
gchar * |
Contact info. |