This is my comment to Hubert Figuiere, who is launching a library, eXMPi, for operating on XMP metadata in the Open Source world:
Yes, I think this is a great move Hubert! Unfortunately, Inkscape uses standard RDF, which can be formatted easily into XMP. Also, the Open Clip Art library reads SVGs which use this RDF.
Hubert, please point us to the code! Creative Commons is fully promoting XMP as the way to go for embedding metadata and the major freedesktop.org indexers are supporting it as well.
We should all push on adobe to get them to open source (GPL) their XMP toolkit which they are clutching. They can only gain from doing this sooner rather than later, especially now that Microsoft’s Vista Photo Gallery supports XMP.
How can we best accelerate this standard in open source? Linksvayer and I have looked at many standards and whatnot and the space is completely clogged up with the minions of metadata all over the web. So, between the complexity of systems for embedding and standardization of fields, XMP solves this nasty problem the best. The only area where metadata has somewhat standardized is in the music space with id3 with mp3s. Still, it would be good to have XMP support in the audio space to have uniformity.
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