Cataloguing software can organize your entire photo collection, but how does it work and what do you look for?
IPTC metadata
IPTC is a system and a structure for storing information such as keywords, descriptions, author and copyright information developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) and now used widely by photo cataloguing and editing programs.
Image metadata explained
Metadata is image information stored alongside or within a photo. You don’t see it in the image, but it can be read by different software applications to help filter, sort, search or identify images.