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XMP

Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a file format neutral specification (and proposed standard) developed by Adobe for embedding comprehensive metadata that is based on the RDF (Resource Description Framework) data model. With a basis on RDF, XMP inherently possesses many desirable characteristics for the representation and management of embedded metadata. Key characteristics include…

See Also XMP Sidecar File; Metadata

XMP sidecar file

XMP metadata may be extracted from an image file and stored in a separate, but related file called a sidecar. Thus image001.tif may have a copy of all embedded metadata stored in a separate file called image001.xmp.…

See Also XMP; Metadata