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Google Mini doesn’t support XMP

Recently, I corresponded with a Google engineer about XMP support in the Google Mini. At work we have a need for robust, finely-tuned search and retrieve capability leveraging Adobe’s XMP in PDF documents. I gave the engineer an example document tagged with custom metadata, explained how we’re currently using a solution which involves Windows Indexing [...]

In Metadata, Search on 11 February 2005 with no comments

Visualize this

Findory has a new feature called “Neighbors” which attempts to visually represent a particular news site or blog’s closely related web brethren. Here’s a screen shot of this blog’s neighbors:

Fascinating. And everybody is doing it. Does this type of visual representation have a name?

In Metadata, Web on 2 February 2005 with 3 comments

Spotlight in OS X Tiger

Spotlight, the up-and-coming search and retrieval system built into the next release of OS X, code name “Tiger,” is likely going to rock. It’s looking like Google Desktop Search on steroids. If you’re a metadata freak like me, Spotlight could be a savior for when your organizational system, if you have one, breaks down. Here’s [...]

In Metadata, OSX on 25 October 2004 with 1 comment

XMP

So I’ve been diving headlong into XMP, Adobe’s extensisble metadata platform. It’s a sturctured tagging standard for inserting metadata into various file types, including PDF and JPEG, among others. I’ve been tasked by my employer with creating a simple document repository for publications and project reports. We’re focusing on PDF right now [...]

In Metadata on 7 May 2004 with no comments