No XMP metadata displayed in Metadata Placard

[Mr Mikel]

I am using the latest version of Bridge on Windows (just installed) and I am not seeing any XMP metadata in the Metadata Placard, which I know my JPG files contain. I see IPTC Core and Extension, Exif, et al., but no XMP. This seems very strange, as I might have expected to see XMP by default. More specifically, I am not seeing XMP:Subject keywords. Any thoughts?

[Shivani Somayajula]

Hi, Mikel! Welcome to the Bridge Community.

I'll need more details to help you figure this out. What version of Bridge and Windows are you using currently?

Does this issue start to occur after updating Bridge / any other software or changing the location of the file? 

Thanks, 

Shivani 

[Mr Mikel]

Shivani -

Thank you for replying to my inquiry.

I installed Adobe Bridge (v14.1.2.300) just yesterday on my Windows PC:

Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 23H2
Installed on ‎3/‎10/‎2023

The attached screenshot of the metadata placard displays all metadata types available to view/edit, of which XMP is not included. I expanded the File Properties dropdown menu to show that the JPG photo selected supports XMP, yet no XMP metadata exisiting in the photo is displayed. 

This is all rather intuitive, i.e., how to adjust the preferences in Bridge for what types of metadata to display, etc., so I can't understand this basic (XMP) omission. Am I missing something obvious? Coming back to this issue today, is just as puzzling as when I first encountered it.

Thanks for whatever ideas or suggestions you might have on this.

Mike

[Mr Mikel]

OK, I have figured this issue out through a lot of reading and testing.

I don't really know why Adobe is reluctant to use the acronym XMP in the metadata panel (as it once did with "Powered by XMP"), although it might be because it is also powered by the IPTC Core schema for XMP. Data entered into the metadata panel IPTC Core fields are not only written to IPTC tags, but are converted and rewritten in XMP format.

I learned from the IPTC link below that IPTC Extension data is written only to XMP. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/metadata-adobe-bridge.html

https://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/documentation/userguide/#_what_is_xmp