XMP-Open is an industry initiative of IDEAlliance to advance XMP as an open industry specification. XMP promises to be the technology that will enable the seamless management of assets throughout an end-to-end digital supply chain. Initiated by Adobe Systems, XMP provides a standard XML envelope, defines an easy-to-implement RDF subset, and specifies the mechanism for embedding metadata in each media asset type. Adobe has given the industry a good starting point by developing the XMP specification far enough to support standardized metadata handling for its own Creative Suite products. But to extend this killer concept across the broader digital asset supply chain, industry education and outreach along with critical new development must be supported. To move the XMP specification forward to meet the requirements of the broader industry, IDEAlliance is launching a new program—XMP-Open.

IDEAllianice is currently in the process of launching XMP-Open.  Watch www.xmp-open.org for more information as it becomes available.