| Format |
Form of Metadata |
Location of Metadata |
Links |
| Audio |
| MP3 |
XMP / Native id3 tags |
The PRIV,XMP field / WCOP tag |
XMP Spec ID3v2.3 Spec |
| Vorbis |
XMP / Native comment field |
XMP comment field / LICENSE comment field |
Ogg Vorbis Docs |
| FLAC |
Native comment fields (id3v2 or vorbis-style comments) |
Same as with MP3 for id3v2 or Vorbis for vorbis-style comments |
FLAC Format Spec |
| Monkey's Audio (APE) |
Native Vorbis-like comment field |
AFAIK, there is no standard tag spec |
|
| Images |
| JPEG |
XMP |
APP1 Markers |
XMP Spec |
| JPEG 2000 |
XMP |
UUID Box |
XMP Spec |
| TIFF |
XMP |
XMLPacket tag |
XMP Spec |
| PNG |
XMP |
iTXt, XML:com:adobe:xmp field |
XMP Spec |
| GIF |
XMP |
Application block |
XMP Spec |
| SVG |
RDF |
/svg/metadata/rdf |
CC Wiki, SVG, based on Inkscape |
| PSD (Adobe Photoshop) |
XMP |
Resource block |
XMP Spec |
| Video |
| ASF (eg AVI) |
Native tag |
Content Description Object |
ASF metadata |
| Matroska |
Native tag |
COPYRIGHT tag |
Matroska Tagging Spec |
| Quicktime |
Native tag |
kMDItemCopyright(old)/kUserDataTextCopyright(new) tag |
Quicktime 7 API Reference XMP Spec |
| OGG |
No metadata standard |
|
Ogg Metadata Draft |
| Theora |
Theora comments (similar to Vorbis comments) |
Theora Spec |
| Flash |
RDF |
? |
|
| Documents |
| PDF |
XMP |
metadata field |
XMP Spec |
| Postscript/EPS |
XMP |
Document-level metadata |
XMP Spec |
| HTML |
RDFa |
<a rel="license" href="..."></a> |
CC Wiki, RDFa |
| SMIL |
RDF |
/smil/head/metadata@id="meta-rdf"/RDF |
CreativeCommons SMIL Module |
| RSS 1.0 |
/RDF/channel/license or /RDF/channel/item/license |
CreativeCommons RSS 1.0 Module |
| RSS 2.0 |
/rss/channel/cc:license or /rss/channel/item/cc:license |
CreativeCommons RSS 2.0 Module |
| Atom |
/feed/entry/link@rel=license |
Atom License Extension |
| Any XML |
XMP |
Wherever valid |
XMP Spec |
| OpenOffice.org (OASIS) |
OO.org CC License Add-In SoC Project is working on the spec |
|
| MS Office (2003) |
DocumentSummaryInformation Infile |
CreativeCommons_LicenseURL property |
Office Add-in |
| MS Office OpenXML (2007) |
? |
? |
OpenXML Spec Relevant mailing list post |
