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IPTC IIM

International Press Telecommunications Council Information Interchange Model: a legacy binary metadata standard embedded in JPEG APP13. Carries caption, credit, copyright, and editorial...

C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity)

An open technical standard that embeds cryptographically signed provenance assertions into media files at the point of capture or editing. A C2PA...

Container Atom / Box

The structural metadata units inside video container formats (MP4, MOV, MKV). Atoms such as mvhd (movie header) carry creation and modification timestamps;...

EXIF

Exchangeable Image File Format: a binary metadata standard defined in the IFF/TIFF structure embedded in JPEG APP1 segment and TIFF file headers....

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format)

A metadata standard embedded in JPEG and TIFF files by capture devices. EXIF fields record camera make and model, lens data, exposure...

Moov Atom

The master index atom in an MP4 or MOV file. Contains all track sample tables, timing information, creation and modification timestamps, and...

RIFF Chunk

Resource Interchange File Format: the container structure used by WAV and AVI files. A hierarchy of typed chunks, each with a four-character...

XMP

Extensible Metadata Platform: Adobe's XML-based metadata container embedded as a text packet in image files. Can carry all standard EXIF and IPTC...

XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform)

An Adobe-defined metadata format stored as an XML packet embedded in image files. XMP carries a software history field (xmpMM:History) that editing...

Explained in these topics

• EXIF and Container Metadata ForensicsA proprietary EXIF sub-block written by the camera manufacturer to record device-specific data not covered by the EXIF standard. Canon, Nikon, Sony, and other...
• Metadata, EXIF, and File-Structure ForensicsEXIF tag 0x927C: a manufacturer-defined metadata block whose internal structure is proprietary. Each camera brand and model family stores different fields. Mak...