{"id":6523,"date":"2018-03-18T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6523"},"modified":"2018-03-18T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:55:02","slug":"including-identification-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6523","title":{"rendered":"Including Identification Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\">I really like this picture of my great-grandparents and their two youngest children. Unlike many photographs I have, it doesn&#8217;t seem staged&#8211;the clothes are on the line, after all. And the daughter seems to be shooting her father a funny type of look.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\">But identifying the picture got me to thinking&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6524\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/charlie-herschel-nellie-fannie_neill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/charlie-herschel-nellie-fannie_neill.jpg 640w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/charlie-herschel-nellie-fannie_neill-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m still toying with ways to include &#8220;metadata&#8221; with pictures. I realize that when creating graphics files there are other ways to include details such as those I&#8217;ve written in black on this document\u00a0<i>without putting them on the actual image itself.<\/i>\u00a0 One concern I see is that not all users of graphic images readily access such metadata and some may inadvertently bypass it entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Genealogists who are not necessarily adept with their computer skills may simply copy and paste the image into their own graphics program or genealogical software&#8211;thus bypassing any &#8220;metadata&#8221; that is not an &#8220;immediate&#8221; part of the image and unintentionally overlooking key information.<\/p>\n<p>Who is in the picture is important, but I&#8217;m starting to become convinced that some of the &#8220;chain of provenance&#8221; and &#8220;how&#8221; we know who is in the picture or where it is taken is important too&#8211;just as important. There are many pictures on the internet that are identified, but if one simply &#8220;copied and pasted it,&#8221; how does one know if the identification was correct?<\/p>\n<p>And if the image gets saved without any identifying information, then it&#8217;s just an old picture of some dead people.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like this picture of my great-grandparents and their two youngest children. Unlike many photographs I have, it doesn&#8217;t seem staged&#8211;the clothes are on the line, after all. And the daughter seems to be shooting her father a funny type of look. But identifying the picture got me to thinking&#8230; I&#8217;m still toying with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}