[Asis-l] news imagery metadata and iphones as news cameras

[kalev leetaru]

Apologies for cross-posting. Thought many on this list that look at
cataloging of imagery would find of great interest my latest that looks at
a 48 hour period last week of over 1.3 million online news images from news
outlets worldwide and ran them all through Image::ExifTool to pull all of
the available metadata fields out of each image. In total there were more
than 5,000 distinct metadata fields found across the collection. Various
statistics on the average age of news images (just over a third of news
images that contain date information are from the last 24 hours, while more
than a quarter of news images are more than a year old, reflecting file and
stock photos), while mobile phones are found to account for a growing
fraction of news imagery:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/10/19/the-hidden-world-of-news-imagery-exif-metadata-iphones-as-news-cameras/

For those interested in deep diving, here is a special extract of just the
metadata in JSON format:

http://blog.gdeltproject.org/vgkg-2-0-metadata-stats-at-2-weeks/

~Kalev
http://kalevleetaru.com/
http://blog.gdeltproject.org/