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Re: Tiger, File Searching and MetaData

On Jul 31, 2004, at 3:33 AM, Mark Gilbert wrote:

> On the topic of metadata.
>
> Does anyone know how we can embed metadata into a file which will be=20=

> picked up by the new search ? Does it read any standard metadata=20
> fields for specific filetypes ?
>
> For example, will it read Quicktime Movie annotations ?
>
> Is it possible to write a plug in to allow it to gather non-standard=20=

> metadata from unusual files ?

Look at the web page that was posted earlier

<http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlighttech.html>

There is a section labelled "Application Metadata-Awareness". The last=20=

sentence to the first paragraph reads:

"Spotlight can be extended to any new file format, automatically adding=20=

an application=92s information to your search results."

Scott

[demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
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