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Today, at the Semantic Technology Conference, Rob Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times announced together that the Times will soon be publishing its copious index as Linked Data.

For some time I have been looking for ways to add tags to iTunes. It seems that the Grouping option in iTunes is able to make this work.

Geotagger is a droplet for inserting GPS coordinates into your photos. Simply position Google Earth (version 4 only) over the location you wish to insert into your images, then drag your images (jpegs only) onto the Geotagger icon.

GPSPhotoLinker adds GPS position and location data to your photos. The latitude and longitude recorded by your GPS unit are linked and saved to your photos. GPSPhotoLinker automatically enters the city, state and country into the metadata. Adding geographic information to an item is known as geotagging

This project installs menu items into the Adobe Lightroom interface that allows photos to be tagged with geographic information through the Lightroom interface. Locations are read from the standard GPX file format and exif information is stored in the image files using Phil Harvey's exiftool.

FlickrMetadataSynchr is a tool that allows you to synchronize metadata added to images stored on Flickr with the original versions of those images stored locally on your hard drive. If you don't have the original version on your hard drive, the application can download the missing pictures for you. The app can sync the metadata two-way on a picture-by-picture and metadata field-by-field basis.

Keep web bookmarks, classify pictures, and annotate documents. Organize with tags and let Nifty Box show you related information. Browse your library and find without searching.

copyNikonISOtoEXIF will copy the ISO setting of Nikon D70 JPEG pictures from the Nikon MakerInfo to the EXIF tag ISOSpeedRatings. So other applications will be able to read them. copyNikonISOtoEXIF is a stand alone command line tool.

ExifTagger is a perl gtk2 app that provides a convenient graphical interface to tagging images. Unlike most other tools, this inserts the tag information into the images as Exif, so they will permanently be part of the digital image.

A library for managing license metadata, in particular CC licensing information.

Xmp Manager is a GUI to manage XMP metadatas on GNU/Linux. Currently XmpManager is a very experimental software and it could not work as expected. The features implemented are minimal.

GPicSync automatically inserts location in your photos metadata so they can also be used with any 'geocode aware' application like Picasa/Google Earth, Flickr, loc.alize.us, etc.

A serious look at the available standards and Open Source tools for adding meta data to images, in the context of building archives of digital photography.