There is a lot of information associated with an image. This info is mostly useful for querying and export. F-Spot needs to have an effective way to assign/edit such information.

===== Use Cases ======

Some taken from [[f-spot:use_cases]]
  * Isztwan wants to apply come classification info on a collection of photos he took in Szabor. Such info includes the **location**, **copyright**, **country** etc. He wants this info to follow de-facto standards so when he exports them to web, emails them to his firends they will be able to view such information with their software. 
  * Isztwan copied photos from his friend, who had a camera in Szabor too. Although Isztwan want's these pictures in the library, he wants to make sure they are marked as **author**ed by somebody else.
  * Isztwan can attach voice memos to individual pictures on his camera. He wants these voice memos to be asociated with the image and be able to play them back in F-Spot and exported onto the web (optionally).
  * Isztwan came back from his vacation in Australia with a lot of pictures. His camera doesn't have a timezone setting and he didn't bother changing the time in it. Isztwan wants to easily shift the time on all his photos after import.

===== Editable Info =====

All information related to the image should be presented here, with a sane interface to edit. Such image attributes are:

  * Image Name
  * Image Description
  * Author/Copyright info

Non-Editable Info

Other things associated with the image that doesn't need direct editing from the user.

  * [[F-Spot:Web Export|Export Information]]
     * Web
     * Printshop
  * EXIF Info

===== Typical Fields (IPTC/XMP) =====

These are the fields that most IPTC editing software includes.  Perhaps we should see which of these make sense to expose in the UI?

  * Title
  * Category
  * Event
  * Date (date formatted)
  * Author
  * Author Title
  * Credit
  * Source
  * Copyright
  * Country
  * State/Province
  * City
  * Special Instructions
  * Writer
  * Caption
  * Contact (list)
  * Additional Categories (list)
  * Keywords (list)
  * Priority

===== Links =====

  * IPTC IIM ("IPTC Headers") - http://www.iptc.org/IIM/
  * XMP - superscedes IPTC IIM - http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/main.html
  * [[http://iview.free.fr/Tutoriels/iptc.html|Typical IPTC Info across software]] ([[http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://iview.free.fr/Tutoriels/iptc.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlink:3b7RysimBqsJ:www.iptc.org/download/download.php%253Ffn%253DIIMV4.1.pdf%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D|same page, translated]])
  * [[http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2004/10/18/f_spot_the_ultimate_photo_manager|Uldis Bojars' comments on the semantic web, as related to F-Spot]] -- also check out the weblog in general as well, as it will have other pertinent stuff from time to time too.
  * Gimp's metadata editor -- http://wilber.gimp.org/~raphael/metadata/