Writing of metadata to photo

[Marlene]

Could someone please confirm for me that the tags, and metadata entered are not actually written and stored in the photo, but only in Tropy? If this is the case, might it be possible in the future to have this functionality so that metadata may be viewed when Tropy is not installed? or on a mobile device?

[inukshuk]

Yes, all the information is stored in your project file (by default saved in your Documents folder).

That said, we'll be considering writing metadata to the image files themselves -- did you have a particular embedded metadata format in mind? Furthermore, Tropy now supports export plugins, so it is likely there will be plugins that export to a format which is easily viewable independently of Tropy (e.g., HTML or PDF).

[Marlene]

No, nothing specific - being an amateur historian with a lot of images to sort and trying to make sure that my work is accessible to all in the future. At the least perhaps whatever could be written to show in the Details pane when the image is shown in Windows Explorer would be useful. For me the key data are the tags, source, date and location but I value all the other features of Tropy and intend to use them as much as I can. But I am not willing to repeat the time to enter similar data into the image itself!