P: Add non-IPTC standard Getty "Personality" field

[bobd650]

I am a sports photographer, and Getty Images *requires* the use of the IPTC "Personality" field for all athletes shown in the image before submission.  I do most of my sorting, culling, IPTC labeling in PhotoMechanic before importing to Lightroom for toning and cropping (No AI anything allowed!). PhotoMechanic supports the Personality field, which I use to insert the subject of the image's name.  However, when I search for an athlete in Lightroom's "all searchable fields" , I get a "nothing found" result.  

In searching Adobe.com, I don't see "Personality" field supported by Adobe (yet). 

It seems that Getty would have enough weight to get Adobe to support the Personality IPTC field.

[GoldingD]

Getty Images *requires* the use of the IPTC "Personality" 

Looking at a Getty website, I see they have a form where you fill this out.

• https://contributors.gettyimages.com/img/articles/downloads/7231973d-a414-4f91-8dcf-3e9a1cfd2ce2.pdf

Now that is probably not exactly what you are referring to, but it makes me think that "Personality" is a Getty wording for info they want, and may or may not be an actual IPTC standard.

And that leads me to question if the actual IPC standard is not Personality, but Person.

In LrC, in the IPTC Extension, you will see Person Shown. If you populate that field and then look at the actual metadata, you may find it as "Person Shown in the Image"

Looking at a Guide to Metadata

• https://photometadata.org/META-Resources-Field-Guide-to-Metadata#Person%20Shown

this is shown:

Person Shown in the Image [IPTC Extension]
Use this field to note the name of a person or persons shown in the image. Typically these would be recorded as they would be typed in a query, first name / last name (given name / surname). If indicating more than one name, you can use commas, or semicolons to separate the names.

Ahh Getty.

Ok searching on "IPTC "Personality" field photomechanic" yields (for one):

https://camerabits.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/48000358438-list-of-photo-mechanic-varia...

and from that:

So is Personality actually a Getty standard and not an IPTC standard?

LrC is in fact short on Metadata. It does not show or allow editing of many IPTC fields. As for third party Metadata, like apparently Getty, even worse.

Can you provide documentation from IPTC as to this field?

Or perhaps just edit your post to clarify. Many would support this, but it needs to be absolutely clear, IPTC metadata, or Getty metadata.

[John R Ellis]

I researched the Personality field, and it's not part of the IPTC industry standard, or any industry standard -- rather, it's part of a proprietary XMP metadata namespace defined by Getty:

https://exiftool.org/TagNames/XMP.html#GettyImages 

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=9706.0 

I haven't found any documentation of the namespace at Gettyimages.com. It appears that Photo Mechanic and Capture One directly support the Personality field. In general, LR doesn't support non-industry-standard metadata fields -- it barely supports Adobe Stock's requirements, and it doesn't fully support IPTC fields.

However, you can use the Run Any Command plugin to set the Personality field from keywords you apply in LR:

1. Make a parent keyword Personality.

2. Add athlete names to a photo by adding one or more subkeywords of Personality, e.g. Joe Montana < Personality.

3. Install the free Exiftool utility.

4. Following the Run Any Command instructions, add this post-processing action to your export preset:

Since you're on Windows, you'll have to change the command line to include the correct path to "exiftool.exe" on your system.

Now when you export photos, the Getty field XMP:Personality will get set to the Personality keywords you added to the photos. 

[John R Ellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, I think this should be moved back to Ideas, where it was previously posted.