Steve Tatum

Visual Resources Curator

Art and Architecture Library

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

Mobile Cataloging

Field Notes

At the site with an

iPhone

EvernotePhoto taken in the app

Evernote is a cloud service that requires a subscription to use notes off line

Voice recording and text

included with the note

Location of the note is

shown when there is an

internet connection

The iPhone does not require a

connection to record a location, only

to download the map.

Thumbnail view of notes

Garmin screen shots

GPS devices give a more

precise location

Track log from a Garmin

View of a desktop program

OCR for labels

and signs

Wall label, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia

FotoNote

METADATA Hotel, Coffee Shop, WIFI

with an iPad

Suggested procedure

Write xmp side cars on the iPad.

Join the side cars with raw files from the

camera at home on a computer.

Bridge uses xmp side cars to write IPTC for raw files

Writing IPTC core for xmp files using PhotosInfo Pro

Select camera images from an import album

Home Again

Embedding metadata in master files

with a computer

Save the export folder to the computer

iTunes

Import xmp from the

iPad

Import raw files from the

camera

Copy xmp files to the image folder

Bridge before copying xmp to the image folder

Bridge after copying xmp files to the image folder

Final Steps

Embedding the metadata

Convert the raw images to tif or another format that

supports embedded metadata

If you are using track logs for GPS

Add the data points to the photos after converting

the raw files and embedding the metadata

More Information

Metadata Deluxe Wikihttp://metadatadeluxe.pbworks.com/w/page/49203730/Ap

ple%20iPad

All photos by the author

Portrait of Thomas Eakins by Elizabeth Macdowell Eakins is public domain

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Thanks to Gallery

Systems for making the

panel possible!