Extensible Metadata Platform

Extensible Metadata Platform
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AbbreviationXMP
Latest versionISO 16684-1:2019 part 1 & ISO 16684-2:2014 part 2
22 December 2014; 9 years ago (2014-12-22)
DomainMetadata
Websitewww.adobe.com/products/xmp.html

The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is an ISO standard, originally created by Adobe Systems Inc., for the creation, processing and interchange of standardized and custom metadata for digital documents and data sets.

XMP standardizes a data model, a serialization format and core properties for the definition and processing of extensible metadata. It also provides guidelines for embedding XMP information into popular image, video and document file formats, such as JPEG and PDF, without breaking their readability by applications that do not support XMP. Therefore, the non-XMP metadata have to be reconciled with the XMP properties. Although metadata can alternatively be stored in a sidecar file, embedding metadata avoids problems that occur when metadata is stored separately.

The XMP data model, serialization format and core properties is published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 16684-1:2012 standard.[1]

  1. ^ Gasiorowski-Denis, Elizabeth (22 March 2012). "Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) becomes an ISO standard". ISO. Archived from the original on 26 May 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2012.