JPEG

image file format

http://www.funducode.com/freec/Fileformats/format3/format3b.htm

supports storing some Meta Data right inside the image file.

• EXIF is one category of Meta Data (some Structured Data inserted by Digital Camera-s), but I'm pretty sure it's different from the basic "comment" bytes (it may even be stored within the "comment" field)

  • http://www.media.mit.edu/pia/Research/deepview/exif.html

• http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tips/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=5695&subsectionid=390

• <http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/07/11/Living Linux.html?page=last>

  • same as http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_23.html#SEC343 ?

• PIL http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2004-January/002534.html

Greg Elin's FotoNotes proposed standard - http://www.fotonotes.net/index.php?action=learnmore#developers

• W3C photo project http://w3photo.org/semantic/

Python Magick gives a wrapper to Image Magick.

http://dealmeida.net/en/Programming/Pyblosxom/pyblosxom_plugins.html

wrjpgcom (Unix Commands) seems to make this very easy