CEPIC Issues

From Arrow to Arrow PLUS

Sep 28. 2011
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ReelDealDH filmed the ARROW PLUS presentation at the Stakeholder Meeting of CEPIC on 20 May 2011.

ARROW, How it continues. The novelties of ARROW PLUS. Why ARROW PLUS?

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CEPIC Congress 2012 London

Aug 30. 2011
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We are pleased to be taking Congress 2012 to The Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in London in May 2012.

London will rock in 2012. The British Queen, Elizabeth II will be celebrating her Jubilee year and the Olympics will also be held in London.

The Opening Reception of Congress will take place on Tuesday 15th May with Congress running from the 16th to the 18th May inclusive with the Annual Industry Party taking place on Friday 18th 2012.

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New campaign to embed information permanently in digital media

Dec 16. 2011
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A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but permanently attached descriptions are worth a lot more as photos travel through the digital world. A campaign has been launched now to embed descriptive and rights information in digital media and to retain it during the whole life cycle.

The initiative has been launched by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), with the support of trade organisations representing visual arts and photo agencies. It aims to establish the practice of applying descriptions and the copyright status of the content as metadata, and to embed it permanently during the electronic exchange of digital photo, text, audio or video files.

CEPIC News

Results of CEPIC Survey on Orphan Works in Historical Archives

Oct 06. 2011
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Carried out from April to August 2011 within the framework of ARROW PLUS, CEPIC gathered information on Orphan Works from a representative selection of commercial picture archives specialising in historic material.

28 agencies from different European countries replied to the survey. Their responses highlight inter alia reasons for orphaned works, ways of retrieving the rights holder but also costs of digitization and preservation. Additional information, examples of Orphan Works and a case study are provided in the appendix of the survey.

  • To read the survey, follow the link below or download the document attached to this article
    http://bit.ly/oyqZb4

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Metadata is like software. Understand its capabilities, use it, improve your business

Sep 22. 2011
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BySarah SaundersThat's easily said, but CEPIC has taken a concrete step to help by commissioning the CEPIC/IPTC Metadata Handbook, authored by Sarah Saunders of Electric Lane with the active participation of the IPTC Photometadata Working Group.

With 76 IPTC fields now available for use, people working in the image business need an overview of metadata planning where IPTC fields are seen in a workflow context. The aim of the guide is to show how companies can follow key principles and plan metadata to suit their own resources, environment, and customer profiles. Only enter data once. Don't use software which drops metadata. Plan your workflow to included metadata. Embed critical data in the image file. ..and so on.

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The CEPIC IPTC Metadata Handbook is available for download for CEPIC Members

Aug 30. 2011
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European picture agency organisation CEPIC has joined forces with standards body IPTC to produce the CEPIC/IPTC Metadata Handbook which was launched on 20 May 2011 at the CEPIC Congress in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Image Metadata Handbook is available for download as a zip file attached to this article.

CEPIC/IPTC Image Metadata Handbook

  • Authors and contributors

Sarah Sanders (Electric Lane), Michael Steidl (IPTC), Paul Brown (CEPIC), Christian Donle, Nancy Wolff

  • Prerequisite

Use Adobe Reader 10/X or Adobe Acrobat 10/X to read the documents of the Handbook. Adobe reader 10 is free to download at http://get.adobe.com/reader/.
Some functions may not work with earlier versions.

  • Start reading

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Industry Press Releases

Embedded Metadata Manifesto (2011)

Jul 05. 2011
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The Manifesto was issued by the IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group in May 2011.

Photographers, film makers, videographers, illustrators, publishers, advertisers, designers, art directors, picture editors, librarians and curators all share the same problem: struggling to track rapidly expanding collections of digital media assets such as photos and video/film clips.

With that in mind we propose five guiding principles as our "Embedded Metadata Manifesto":

  1. Metadata is essential to describe, identify and track digital media and should be applied to all media items which are exchanged as files or by other means such as data streams.

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CEPIC and IPTC release Metadata Handbook

May 16. 2011
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European picture agency organisation CEPIC has joined forces with standards body IPTC to produce the CEPIC/IPTC Metadata Handbook, which will be launched on 20 May 2011 at the CEPIC Congress in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Handbook, commissioned by CEPIC, is a PDF package of documents which includes Image Metadata Planning - a guide for business users, papers on the legal framework for metadata use, quick reference charts on the use of IPTC Core and Extension fields, and an interactive metadata workflow planning tool for selecting IPTC fields for use in various stages of a business workflow.

CEPIC News

Partnership with World Copyright Summit 2011 offers CEPIC Members discounted fees

Apr 08. 2011
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In 2011 CEPIC is a partner of the World Copyright Summit 2011, which will be held from June 7th - 8th 2011 in Brussels.

As a partner, CEPIC receives a specific discounted delegate fee for all members of the organisation until the 18th April.

Endorsing organisations may register here:
http://www.copyrightsummit.com/register-2/

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Why it is important that website owners demand greater search transparency

Mar 07. 2011
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ByMarc Pinter-KrainerOne of the challenges for ICOMP member One News Page’s “Have I Been Penalized” campaign, which seeks to raise awareness of search engine penalties, is that so many website owners assume that dramatic collapses in visitor traffic are normally triggered by the regular reshufflings of Google’s index.

As you know, Google is overwhelmingly dominant in search, commanding around 70% of the global internet search market and an even higher market share across Europe.

When Google reshuffles its web index, which is known colloquially as the “Google Dance” and which occurs roughly once every three months, it can lead to changes in a site’s Google rankings.

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