FYI, see
IRSA is involved in this as well, designing an information system infrastructure for storing, sharing and searching the metadata.
Ray Plante wrote:
> Hey Pierre,
>
> A standard for tagging JPEGs with metadata for outreach purposes is in
> the works, driven by a US-European collaboration. It's current form is
> in the IVOA is a Note, "Astronomical Outreach Imagery Metadata Tags for
> the Virtual Observatory"
> (http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/AOIMetadata.html).
> The contact people in Europe are Lars Lindberg Christensen and Markus
> Dolensky, and in the US, Robert Hurt. They are in the process of
> revising the document and getting ready for a comment process for both
> the outreach community and the IVOA.
>
> cheers,
> Ray
Received on 2008-01-17Z16:48:52