I work for a cultural institution in New York and Adobe XMP is one of the main standards we utilize in developing our DAMS. The fact that XMP is interchangeable between multiple third party applications is central to its functionality. The images photographed by our curatorial department rely on the core XMP sidecar files as identifiers for RAW/ unprocessed files.
I'm very interested as to what softwares and operating systems that organizations are implementing in tandem with Xinet.
Agencies leverage XMP and other metadata throughout their workflow. XMP data comes in from a photographer or stock photo house and is managed or appended at most stages in the Xinet workflow. With Xinet's XMP support, those assets can easily be managed in Xinet, or in Adobe's applications like Bridge, Photoshop InDesign etc. Other systems such as Documentum, Portfolio, or Telescope can be part of this process too. Really any app that supports full XMP roundtripping which is what makes it so valuable since only part of the workflow is under your control.
Rich IOI
We've been loading XMP into InDesign files for several years, first using home-grown Applescripts and then with Triple Triangle's Mechanical Cubed slugging software which can map to the Xinet xwnv XMP prefix.
Our biggest issue was the fact that you needed to open up a file to permanently adjust its XMP (you could change an XMP metadata field in WebNative, but it would revert back to what was in the file once the file was opened).
That has now changed with 8.03. You can now write XMP to a file in WebNative without needing to open the file. Couple this with the new ability to leverage metadata in Triggers and Actions and I think you're going to see an explosion of metadata uses on Xinet in the coming 18 months.
For Photoshop and Illustrator files, we use custom XMP panels that we've made available thru Adobe Bridge and then, since the fields are mapped to WebNative, any additional adjustments can be made there. (Triple Triangle has similar slugging software for Illustrator and the guy there, Chris Jones, is very knowledgeable about Xinet).
Agencies leverage XMP and other metadata throughout their workflow. XMP data comes in from a photographer or stock photo house and is managed or appended at most stages in the Xinet workflow. With Xinet's XMP support, those assets can easily be managed in Xinet, or in Adobe's applications like Bridge, Photoshop InDesign etc. Other systems such as Documentum, Portfolio, or Telescope can be part of this process too. Really any app that supports full XMP roundtripping which is what makes it so valuable since only part of the workflow is under your control.
Rich IOI
We've been loading XMP into InDesign files for several years, first using home-grown Applescripts and then with Triple Triangle's Mechanical Cubed slugging software which can map to the Xinet xwnv XMP prefix.