5 Metadata projects

Innovations

• Unique cross-platform provider plugins, deployed with a single download and simply double-clicked to install. Easily constructed plugins using ZIP packaging with XML provider configuration and platform-specific processing scripts.
• Clicking an item in the validation checklist selects it in the media catalogue for correction.
• Automatically re-validates after corrections are made.

Features

• Support of submission via disc (postal) or FTP.
• Report generation for printing when submitting via disc.
• Conditional metadata validation and review.

Features

• Included bespoke installer for Windows version
• Metadata validation and file conversion procedures to match DRRs requirements before upload to the server
• Destination FTP folder selection

Features

• Transfers images and metadata from iView MediaPro catalogs to website, transparently through serveral verification and data transfer steps.

Innovations

• Optimised service addition and sign-in UI, including transparent post web authentication token retrieval (e.g. OAuth) using a simple 'becomes frontmost' check
• First application to upload both image data and annotations
• First application to interface between both multiple applications and multiple web services
• Comprehensive abstractions for web service behaviours with modular service plugin architecture including per-plugin version checking
• Co-branded builds with default sign-in prompts for service providers using an automated build system, and with provider-specific statistics (via a private website login)
• Only application to be able to upload images and then later sync the annotations (e.g. via Flick API)
• Only application to employ database-free metadata via file system extended attributes (i.e. for service upload IDs)
• Transparent licence activation after purchase on website

Features

• Integral image and metadata manipulation functions
• Support for multiple disparate web-service APIs for uploads with an aggregate progress UI
• Interfaces with the file system and external applications to collect data, including support for standards-based emebedded IPTC/XMP and XMP sidecar files for annotations
• Fullscreen view

Links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20160313224800/http://picturesync.net/

Innovations

• First and only application to avoid polling iTunes every second or so, and instead more efficiently poll by simply calculating when the track ends, thus avoiding undue CPU load
• Use of variables for configuring metadata preferences
• Creation of JPEG artwork from iTunes PICT wrapper
• First application to provide artwork upload

Features

• Locates artwork from disk, or extracts from iTunes
• Integrated Last.fm scrobbling

Links

• http://holocore.com/?OnDeck