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'''AFCP''' (AXS File Concatenation Protocol) is a metadata format for image files. Its main uses are embedding [[IPTC-IIM]] data, and thumbnail images. It's not clear what ''AXS'' refers to.
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'''AFCP''' (AXS File Concatenation Protocol) is a metadata format for image files. Its main uses are embedding [[IPTC-IIM]] data, and thumbnail images. It's not clear what ''AXS'' refers to (since it [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Lawrence_Carter#AXS was a business in Berkely, CA, US] the initials may refer to [https://axs.berkeley.edu "Alpha Chi Sigma", a university's fraternity]).
  
 
It is designed to be used as a "trailer" that can be appended to a number of different file formats. It could potentially be used in other ways, and even has [[TIFF]] tag 34152 assigned to it. But it is not a ''self-contained'' format (it contains pointers relative to the beginning of the ''file''), so such use would be problematic.
 
It is designed to be used as a "trailer" that can be appended to a number of different file formats. It could potentially be used in other ways, and even has [[TIFF]] tag 34152 assigned to it. But it is not a ''self-contained'' format (it contains pointers relative to the beginning of the ''file''), so such use would be problematic.
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== Software ==
 
== Software ==
* [https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ExifTool]
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* [https://exiftool.org/ ExifTool]
 
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== Links ==
 
== Links ==
* [https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/AFCP.html Information from ExifTool]
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* [https://exiftool.org/TagNames/AFCP.html Information from ExifTool]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 21:58, 27 October 2023

File Format
Name AFCP
Ontology
Released 1992?

AFCP (AXS File Concatenation Protocol) is a metadata format for image files. Its main uses are embedding IPTC-IIM data, and thumbnail images. It's not clear what AXS refers to (since it was a business in Berkely, CA, US the initials may refer to "Alpha Chi Sigma", a university's fraternity).

It is designed to be used as a "trailer" that can be appended to a number of different file formats. It could potentially be used in other ways, and even has TIFF tag 34152 assigned to it. But it is not a self-contained format (it contains pointers relative to the beginning of the file), so such use would be problematic.

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In most cases, the signature "ASX!" or "ASX*" appears beginning 12 bytes from the end of the file.

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