(2007-02-21) Udell Metadata File Vs Db

Jon Udell on the trade-offs on putting Meta Data in the Binary File (FotoNotes), vs putting it in a separate Data Base (IPhoto).

Apr'2007: Thomas Hawk of Zooom R is going the in-the-file approach for his Photo-s.

Aug'2007: Norm Walsh is doing some wild stuff. (RAW, RDF, Light Room, EXIF)

Oct'2007: Photo Gallery includes its MetaTag-s in FlickR uploads.

Nov update: I just had this come up when I got my old Canon Digital Camera back from repair, and the clock was off. First I adjusted the subset that I'd uploaded to FlickR, because that's when I discovered it. Then, I adjusted the IPhoto stuff. But I wonder whether the old/wrong data is stuffed in the original image files themselves, and if I ever have to rebuild the IPhoto db, things will be wrong again. (Only off by 2 months, so not the end of the world.)