[Air-L] news imagery metadata and iphones as news cameras

kalev leetaru kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 18:39:35 PDT 2016


Apologies for cross-posting. Thought many on this list that look at online
news imagery would find of great interest my latest that looks at a 48 hour
period last week of over 1.3 million 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/



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