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There was a thread about this in the corel photography group quite awhile ago. They were discussing the different types of programs and the different things like you mention, EXIF, IPTC, META INFO and such. They were talking about how long these standard types of files would be able to be accessed in future generations with all this data intack. YWIM?
Meaning in the future would another type of cataloging infomation holding and gathering ability be implimented in the future in the new programs and would they support the older data ability.
Didn't seem like it mattered to me then as I read that thread. But I can see where if you have special comments added to a particular set of photo's you would want them to remain active no matter where you take this photo.
It is sort of like how we can write on the back of photo's what the occasion, event, date ect. happened on a physical photo!
I know with my real photos in photo albums, I have them dated, names, places, events recorded in ink...it will stay there for 100's of years to be read by future generations.
I also would like to be able to do this with my digital photo's and think it is extremely important.
So for this part of the exercise, Pesto which do you think is the best program that will retain this info "FOREVER" and be able to be read for many years to come.
Or should a person keep a copy of the program we are using now to do this and then hope to high heavens it works on the computers of the future.....year 2200???
This is the part of digital photo's that scared me, that in 100 years my decendants will not be able to view them, like I can with my great-great grandparents photo's!!
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