Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2005
Ian Robson, Lars Lindberg Christensen (eds.)
Pages 258-261

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Moving the Pretty Pictures into the 21st Century

Abstract:

One of the first steps towards an Astro-Google or even a Virtual Repository (see Christensen, 2006, this volume) is the proper meta-tagging of outreach products such as images and videos. Meta-tags will allow information such as ID, object name, image coordinates and more to 'travel' with the products and thereby facilitate proper searching of the products. The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator v.2 will support meta-tags, but a global consensus on these meta-tags must be reached. We report on the latest progress in this area.

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