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Last Thursday, the photo metadata industry came together for the 2026 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference. Over 250 registrants from well over 100 organisations gathered for the premier event for photo and image metadata experts from the media, visual arts and cultural heritage industries. Read more...
The IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group has chosen the vendors who will be presenting at the "Metadata Safari" component of the 2026 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference. This completes the agenda for this year's event, which will be held online at 15:00 UTC on Thursday 3rd September. Read more...
IPTC'a annual Photo Metadata Conference is taking place on Thursday, 3rd September. We have a great lineup again this year, featuring sessions on AI disclosure, new IPTC Photo Metadata properties, a "metadata safari" demonstrating vendor implementation of industry standards, and a new tool to examine real-world use of photo metadata at news providers. Read more...
Software industry legend Tim Bray gave a resounding call to IPTC and to others working on media provenance and C2PA: his verdict was that while the specification and its implementation had issues, they were slowly being resolved and he lauded the project's goal of, in Tim's words, "making it harder for liars to lie and easier for truth tellers to be believed". Read more...
Tuesday's IPTC Photo Metadata Conference was a great success. With 12 speakers from the media and software industries and over 200 people registered, it continues to be the largest gathering of photo and image metadata experts globally. Read more...
We had a great Photo Metadata Conference last Thursday. Thanks to those who attended. For those who didn't, or those who would like to go over some detail again, here we publish full recordings of all sessions. Read more...
We are proud to announce that Camera Bits, Mobius Labs, Microsoft, Smithsonian, CBC and many others will be presenting at the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference next week, Thursday 10th November. With a theme of Photo Metadata in the Real World, the event is free for anyone to attend. Register here for the Zoom webinar to receive details before the event. Read more...
The IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group is proud to announce the IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2022. The event will be held online on Thursday November 10th from 15.00 - 18.00 UTC. Read more...