How to contact IPTC on Photo Metadata

The IPTC office is based in London, United Kingdom.

Please send mail to:

IPTC International Press Telecommunications Council
20 Garrick Street
Londong WC2E 9BT
United Kingdom

Telephone number: +44 (20) 3178 4922
(Office hours: 8.00 - 15.00 GMT)

Fax number: +44 (20) 7664 7878

Michael Steidl is the Managing Director of IPTC.

Harald Löffler is the lead of the Photo Metadata Working Group at IPTC.

A contact form is available.

The Photo Metadata Yahoo Forum is used to discuss usage and further improvement of the photo metadata standards.

The IPTC-for-XMP Yahoo Forum is used to discuss the implementation of IPTC photo metadata by Adobe's XML technology.

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Download the latest version of the IPTC-PLUS Metadata panel

For both IPTC Core and IPTC Extension: the Photo Metadata Standards document as of July 2010

The IPTC moderates two discussion forums on photo metadata:
* Generic issues
* XMP specific technical issues

A feed in the Atom 1.0 format is providing all changes to Photo Metadata standards