Adding XMP support to Firefox

Abstract

XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) is an RDF-based framework of Adobe Systems Incorporated that supports the embedding of metadata in application files. If it becomes widely used on the web, it will provide a rich source of metadata to semantic web applications, too. This paper presents a solution to add a unique feature to the popular Firefox web browser, the capability to extract XMP metadata from web resources. The solution is based on the Piggy Bank Firefox extension that turns Firefox into a "semantic web browser".