The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is an

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, originally created by

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, for the creation, processing and interchange of standardized and custom metadata for digital documents and data sets. XMP standardizes a data model, a serialization format and core properties for the definition and processing of extensible

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. It also provides guidelines for embedding XMP information into popular image, video and document file formats, such as

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and

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, without breaking their readability by applications that do not support XMP. Therefore, the non-XMP metadata have to be reconciled with the XMP properties. Although metadata can alternatively be stored in a

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, embedding metadata avoids problems that occur when metadata is stored separately. The XMP data model, serialization format and core properties is published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 16684-1:2012 standard.

Data model

The defined XMP data model can be used to store any set of metadata properties. These can be simple name/value pairs, structured values or lists of values. The data can be nested as well. The XMP standard also defines particular

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for defined sets of core properties (e.g. a namespace for the

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Metadata Element Set). Custom namespaces can be used to extend the data model. An instance of the XMP data model is called an XMP packet. Adding properties to a packet does not affect existing properties. Software to add or modify properties in an XMP packet should leave properties that are unknown to it untouched. For example, it is useful for recording the history of a resource as it passes through multiple processing steps, from being photographed, scanned, or authored as text, through photo editing steps (such as cropping or color adjustment), to assemble into a final document. XMP allows each software program or device along the workflow to add its own information to a digital resource, which carries its metadata along. The prerequisite is that all involved editors either actively support XMP, or at least do not delete it from the resource.

Serialization

The abstract XMP data model needs a concrete representation when it is stored or embedded into a file. As serialization format, a subset of the

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graph in XML. There are various equivalent ways to serialize the same XMP packet in RDF/XML. The most common metadata tags recorded in XMP data are those from the

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, which include things like title, description, creator, and so on. The standard is designed to be extensible, allowing users to add their own custom types of metadata into the XMP data. XMP generally does not allow binary data types to be embedded. This means that any binary data one wants to carry in XMP, such as

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images, must be encoded in some XML-friendly format, such as

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. XMP metadata can describe a document as a whole (the "main" metadata), but can also describe parts of a document, such as pages or included images. This architecture makes it possible to retain authorship and rights information about, for example, images included in a published document. Similarly, it permits documents created from several smaller documents to retain the original metadata associated with the parts.

Example

This is an example XML document for serialized XMP metadata in a JPEG photo: Picasa

912 687 pixel

0.680921052631579 0.3537117903930131 0.4264919941775837 0.32127192982456143 normalized

912 687 0220 This metadata describes various properties of the image like the creator tool, image dimension or a face region within the image.

Embedding

Embedding metadata in files allows easy sharing and transfer of files across products, vendors, platforms, without metadata getting lost. Embedding avoids a multitude of problems coming from proprietary vendor-specific metadata databases. XMP can be used in several file formats such as

JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system. It was developed from 1997 to 2000 by a Joint Photographic Experts Group committee chaired by Touradj Ebrahimi (later the JPEG president), with the intention of superseding the ...

JPEG XR JPEG XR (JPEG extended range) is an image compression standard for continuous tone photographic images, based on the HD Photo (formerly Windows Media Photo) specifications that Microsoft originally developed and patented. It supports both lossy a ...

GIF The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. ...

, PNG,

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HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...

TIFF Tag Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. TIFF is widely supported by scanning, faxing, word processin ...

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, MP4,

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, and proposed for

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. In a typical edited

file, XMP information is typically included alongside

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and

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data.

Location in file types

''For more details, th
XMP Specification, Part 3 Storage in Files
listed below has details on embedding in specific file formats.'' *

Tag 700 *

Application segment 1 (0xFFE1) with segment header "http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/\x00" *

"uuid" atom with UID of 0xBE7ACFCB97A942E89C71999491E3AFAC * PNGinside an "iTXt" text block with the keyword "XML:com.adobe.xmp" *

as an Application Extension with identifier "XMP Data" and authentication code "XMP" *

inside the ID3 block as a "PRIV" frame with an owner identifier of "XMP". * MP4top-level "UUID" box with the UUID 0xBE7ACFCB97A942E89C71999491E3AFAC (Same as JPEG 2000) * MOV (QuickTime)"XMP_" atom within a "udta" atom, within a top level "moov" atom. *

embedded in a metadata stream contained in a PDF object *

inside the files XMP chunk * For file formats that have no support for embedded XMP data, this data can be stored in external .xmp

Support and acceptance

XMP Toolkit

The XMP Toolkit implements metadata handling in two libraries: * XMPCore for creation and manipulation of metadata that follows the XMP Data Model. * XMPFiles for embedding serialized metadata in files, and for retrieving embedded metadata. Adobe provides the XMP Toolkit free of charge under a

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. The Toolkit includes specification and usage documents (PDFs), API documentation (

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source code (XMPCore and XMPFiles) and

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source code (currently only XMPCore). XMPFiles is currently available as a C++/Java implementation in Windows, Mac OS,

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Free software and open-source tools (read/write support)

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- open source CMS, DAM component can read/write XMP (Microsoft Windows, Linux) * CC PDF Converter - A free open source (GPL) program to convert documents to PDF with embedded Creative-Commons license (Microsoft Windows). *

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- RAW developer, can read/write XMP in supported file formats (Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, BSD) * digiKam - open source (GPL) image tagger and organiser (Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows) *

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by Phil Harvey, open source

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module or command line. Can read/write XMP, supports custom XMP schema (platform independent) *

F-Spot F-Spot is a slowly maintained image organizer, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. The name is a play on the word F-Stop. History The F-Spot project was started by Ettore Perazzoli and is maintained ...

- Linux/GNOME photo manager and editor * Geeqie - Lightweight Gtk+ based image manager (formerly GQView) *

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- GNU Image Manipulation Program *

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- Linux/KDE photo manager and editor *

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- Open Source Java library that can read and write XMP embedded in PDF files. *

Magic Lantern (firmware) Magic Lantern is a firmware add-on for various Canon digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras and the EOS M.Digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, allowing writing of XMP sidecar files including

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information for post-deflicker. *

RawTherapee RawTherapee is application software for processing photographs in raw image formats, as created by many digital cameras. It comprises a subset of image editing operations specifically aimed at non-destructive post-production of raw photos and is ...

- Can read "rating" tags from embedded XMP, which are then shown in the File Browser/Filmstrip using RawTherapee’s star rating system. * Shotwell - Linux/GNOME photo manager, can read/write

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and XMP metadata * TYPO3 - open source Enterprise CMS. DAM component reads XMP (PHP based)

Proprietary tools (read/write support)

ACDSee Pro ACDSee is an image organizer, viewer, and image editor program for Windows, macOS and iOS, developed by ACD Systems International Inc. ACDSee was originally distributed as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.0 and later supplanted by a 32-bit ...

can read and write XMP information for DNG, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF files (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X). *

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- can read and write XMP in PDF files (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, partially Linux). *

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- Image management application and RAW developer. Reads/writes XMP sidecar files to (batch) import/export image metadata (Mac OS X). * Bibble5 can read/write XMP information for RAW, JPG and TIFF files (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux). *

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- can read/write and batch edit XMP metadata (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X) *

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- Photo editing and management software. Reads and writes XMP for all supported image formats (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X). * Corel AfterShot Pro - RAW processor (Bibble successor), reads/writes XMP, uses XMP sidecar files for non-destructive image processing (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux). *

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- DAM software, can read/write XMP for all supported image formats, InDesign and PDF files (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) *

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- Can read/write XMP for JPEG, PSD, RAW, TIFF, DNG, PNG, GIF, JP2, PJX, MPG, MP4, MPEG, MOV (Microsoft Windows). Multi-user, central database system. *

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- Image viewer (Windows) with XMP embedding and/or sidecar files creation (xmp:Rating, xmp:Label, photoshop:Urgency) (Microsoft Windows) *

FrameMaker Adobe FrameMaker is a document processor designed for writing and editing large or complex documents, including structured documents. It was originally developed by Frame Technology Corporation, which was bought by Adobe. Overview FrameMaker ...

- publishing tool. Stores document metadata in XMP since version 7.0 (Microsoft Windows) *

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- illustration software, writes document metadata in XMP (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X) *

Indesign Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and page layout designing software application produced by Adobe Inc. and first released in 1999. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, ...

- page layout software, can pass through XMP in placed objects, writes extensive XMP about document contents in layout documents and exported PDF (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X) *

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Photos app - Saves edits made to photos on an iPhone/iPad losslessly as XMP embedded in the original JPEG. * Lightroom - Image management application and RAW developer. Uses XMP for non-destructive image manipulation and import/export of metadata (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X) *

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- Photo Gallery saves tags to XMP (Microsoft Windows) * Photo Mechanic - Reads and writes XMP directly into image files or into XMP sidecar files. *

Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the industry standard not only in raster ...

- can read/write XMP in supported images. Allows embedding of non standard XMP data through 'custom XMP panels' (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X) *

PicaJet PicaJet is a digital photo organizer software. Photos, located in various places on hard drives, can be located by date, category (which can be defined), rating or other user-defined custom criterion. PicaJet can assign images to categories withou ...

- Can read XMP for JPG, TIFF and DNG formats (Microsoft Windows). *

Picasa Picasa was a cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time was incubated by ...

- Image organizer/viewer, uses XMP for face tagging (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) *

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- DAM software, can read/write XMP in supported file formats (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X) * Stibo STEP - DAM component reads/writes XMP for all supported formats *

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- Microsoft library for working with and processing digital images and image metadata (Microsoft Windows) * Windows Live Photo Gallery - a photo management and sharing application released as a part of Microsoft's Windows Live initiative. It is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, which is a part of Windows Vista. *

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- can read/write

and XMP information. *

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- can read/write

and XMP information for DNG, JPEG, TIFF, HDP and various RAW files (Microsoft Windows). The mainstream

editing tools also support editing of XMP data.

Licensing

XMP is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. The XMP specification became an ISO standard and is not proprietary anymore. Initially, Adobe released source code for the XMP SDK under a license called the ''ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED — OPEN SOURCE LICENSE''. The compatibility of this license with the

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has been questioned. The license is not listed on the list maintained by the

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and is different from the licenses for most of their

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

software. On May 14, 2007, Adobe released the XMP Toolkit SDK under a standard BSD license. On August 28, 2008, Adobe posted a public patent license for the XMP. Adobe continues to distribute these documents under the ''XMP Specification Public Patent License''.

History

XMP was first introduced by

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in April 2001 as part of the

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5.0 software product. On June 21, 2004, Adobe announced its collaboration with the

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. In July 2004, a working group led by

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' Gunar Penikis and IPTC's Michael Steidl was set up, and volunteers were recruited from AFP (Agence France-Presse),

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, ControlledVocabulary.com, IDEAlliance,

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, and others, to develop the new schema. The "IPTC Core Schema for XMP" version 1.0 specification was released publicly on March 21, 2005. A set of custom panels for Adobe Photoshop CS can be downloaded from the IPTC. The package includes a User's Guide, example photos with embedded XMP information, the specification document, and an implementation guide for developers. The "User's Guide to the IPTC Core" goes into detail about how each of the fields should be used and is also available directly as a PDF. The next version of the Adobe Creative Suite (CS2) included these custom panels as part of its default set. The

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, released with

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, offers support for the XMP standard, the first time Microsoft has released

compatibility beyond

References

External links

Adobe XMP Main Page

XMP Specification

Creative Commons XMP Recommendation

Metadata section in the PDF 1.6 Language Reference

IPTC4XMP (IPTC Core) standard

Metadata Working Group provides guidance on metadata interoperability
{{Graphics file formats ISO standards Digital photography Metadata Open formats