Who kills our metadata ? – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Guest post by: Thierry Secretan, photographer, journalist, filmmaker. Only 3% of the photographs published on the web still have their metadata — The remaining 97% are stripped of all metadata. Why? How? By whom? What are the solutions? In a time where we
via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/who-kills-our-metadata/
Unfortunately, not much will be made of these long hours devoted to informing his images as accurately as possible – the famous metadata – giving all their journalistic value to Olivier’s photographs. The metadata will be deleted, discarded, erased by the news sites who will publish them. This is also the case for the vast majority of the three billion photos published daily on the web, whether yours or mine, those of professionals published on The New York Times’ website or Liberation’s or those of amateurs exchanged by smartphone, published on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.