On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Farrukh Najmi <farr...@wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote: > On 07/03/2012 01:56 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Farrukh Najmi >> <farr...@wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 07/02/2012 11:22 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Farrukh Najmi >>>> <farr...@wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Guys, >>>>> >>>>> I am new to the project so forgive me if the answer is obvious... >>>>> >>>>> I am working with latest svn bits and the >>>>> org.apache.commons.imaging.formats.tiff.taginfos.TagInfo class seems to >>>>> only >>>>> support the TagName column of Table 3 TIFF Rev. 6.0 Attribute >>>>> Information >>>>> Used in Exif in the Exif spec <http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF>. I need >>>>> access to FieldName as it seems more suitable as a human-friendly >>>>> identifier >>>>> for the tag. >>>>> >>>>> I think it would be ideal if TagInfo supports both TagName and >>>>> FieldName. >>>>> What does the dev team think? If there are not many -1s then I will >>>>> file >>>>> in >>>>> RFE in JIRA. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your input. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Farrukh >>>>> >>>>> Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com >>>>> >>>> Hi Farrukh >>>> >>>> The TIFF6 specification Appendix A only has a "TagName", which is >>>> similar to Exif 2.2's "FieldName". Other TIFF tag specifications (DNG, >>>> TIFFPM6, RFC 2301) also only give a name and a description. >>>> >>>> Maybe what we need is: >>>> Use TagInfo's "name" field for the name taken verbatim from those >>>> specs (eg. use "ImageWidth" instead of "Image Width") >>>> Add a "description" field to TagInfo with a long description (eg. >>>> "Image width, the number of columns in the image") >>>> >>>> What do you think? >>> >>> >>> Hi Damjan, >>> >>> +1 on your proposed solution for using TagInfo.name for the Exif 2.2's >>> "Field Name" and for adding a TagInfo.description for Exif 2.2's "Tag >>> Name". >>> This is what I was thinking as well. That in conjunction with existing >>> TagInfo.tag (the numeric id) completes the identification, naming and >>> description of the tag and makes for a clean model. >>> >>> What do dev team members >>> <http://commons.apache.org/imaging/team-list.html> >>> think about this proposal? >>> >>> As an aside, this matches very well with ebXML RegRep's Registry >>> Information >>> Model which is what I am trying to map photo metadata to. My eventual >>> goal >>> is to define a standard specification to manage image content and >>> metadata >>> in an ebXML Registry and Repository. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Farrukh >>> >>> Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com >>> >> Those dev teams members are no longer around, it's mostly just me :). >> >> "description" is going to be difficult, as only EXIF provides it. But >> I'll start doing the "name". >> > > Hi Damjan, > > Please see the patch I submitted for thread: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/201207.mbox/browser > > Above thread seems quite related to this one. > > I think IPTC provides description too. > > If a metadata format other than EXIF or IPTC (which are others btw?) does > not support description then we can simply return null for that.
The only other metadata format is XMP, but at the moment it's read by a separate method and returned as a string of XML. > > BTW, ok if I start a JIRA issue (or should it be two?) to track both > threads' issues? Of course, go ahead. > > -- > Regards, > Farrukh > > Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > Regards Damjan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
