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PRISM Metadata for Images Spec Posted for Public Comment

In 2005, a subcommittee of PRISM began to develop a new metadata specification for digital images called Digital Image Management Metadata or DIM2. This work aggressively tackled topics such a delivery platforms and digital rights that really justified their own place in the PRISM Specification. In early 2007, work on the digital image metadata specification was set aside and concepts from that early work were brought back to the broader PRISM Working Group for inclusion in the general specification.
 
Based on this input, the PRISM Working Group released PRISM 2.0, addressing content delivery in an online and multimedia environment, as well as in print in 2008. Then in 2009, PRISM 2.1 added metadata to manage and track rights and permissions for all types of digital media, including digital images was released. Since that time, PRISM has focused on developing a metadata specification for images that uses PRISM metadata fields as its basis and develops metadata fields that are unique to the encoding of images where required. This Spec is now available for public comment. Please download and provide comments back by October 30, 2010. Directions are found in the .zip package.