Julien Cubizolles writes: > I often include images in my org documents and would like to properly > cite the license, and/or author.
This is usually done manually in a citation in the caption I think. >I was thinking that this could be > simplified by: > > * embedding the license/author information in some metadata of the jpg > or png file (it seems that some standard called xmp can be used to > embed data in png/jpg [fn:1]) preferably using some emacs tool Making the xml would not be too difficult in emacs, but I guess you would have to call some external program to insert xmp into the images. > > * getting org to add a footnote with this information when linking to a > file with this kind of information. This would not work reliably. I could imagine an insert figure link which would check for the data and do that, or perhaps a post-insert-link hook function, but neither of these would work if you simply type in a link. What should happen with images that don't contain the data? > > Could it be done? Do you know of an emacs package providing read/write > access to this metadata? None I know of. I looked at something similar for pdf, but did not find anything but external programs. > > Footnotes: > > [fn:1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
