Image Metadata for CenSeam

The CenSeam Image Metadata Project intends to standardize the metadata captured for still images by members of The Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam) working group, with the possibility of being used in the larger marine science community through projects like The Census of Marine Life (CoML) and Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI). In addition to writing the standards document, Mike McCann and Lonny Lundsten, from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), are working on creating a prototype image with imbedded metadata and a protocol for reading and writing this metadata to still images.For more information, email Lonny Lundsten at MBARI (lonny at mbari.org).

Group News and Highlights

Recent investigations...

MBARI has begun investigating the possible application of the CenSeam image metadata standard to MBARI images.

While this is a very preliminary investigation, the exploration process already led to additional discoveries about metadata-friendly tools for images, and opened up consideration of other sources and applications of image metadata.

These additional understandings will be captured as part of the CenSeam Image Metadata Project, to continue the community's progress on an image metadata standard.