<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Blog — Obscura Catalog</title><description>Obscura Catalog articles: catalogue raisonné, image metadata, exports.</description><link>https://catalog.obscuraflow.app/en/blog</link><language>en</language><item><title>A certificate of authenticity for a photograph: what it attests, and what it does not</title><link>https://catalog.obscuraflow.app/en/blog/certificat-d-authenticite-photographie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://catalog.obscuraflow.app/en/blog/certificat-d-authenticite-photographie</guid><description>Who declares what, what an Ed25519 signature proves, what a date is worth, how to verify a certificate online, and what a certificate of authenticity does not replace: expertise, the law. With Obscura Catalog&apos;s certificate as an example.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>certificate of authenticity</category><category>digital signature</category><category>attribution</category><category>verification</category></item><item><title>LIDO, CIDOC CRM, CSV: moving a catalogue without losing it</title><link>https://catalog.obscuraflow.app/en/blog/lido-cidoc-crm-csv-faire-voyager-un-catalogue</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://catalog.obscuraflow.app/en/blog/lido-cidoc-crm-csv-faire-voyager-un-catalogue</guid><description>Exchanging a catalogue raisonné with a museum or an archive: open versus proprietary formats, CSV, LIDO and CIDOC CRM, authority identifiers, and EXIF and XMP metadata written without touching the image&apos;s pixels.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>interoperability</category><category>LIDO</category><category>CIDOC CRM</category><category>CSV</category><category>XMP</category><category>open formats</category></item><item><title>Prints, editions, artist&apos;s proofs: documenting what really exists</title><link>https://catalog.obscuraflow.app/en/blog/tirages-editions-epreuves-d-artiste</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://catalog.obscuraflow.app/en/blog/tirages-editions-epreuves-d-artiste</guid><description>Declared edition size and copies actually printed, print numbering, artist&apos;s and printer&apos;s proofs, provenance with its gaps, exhibition history: what a photographic catalogue raisonné must say, and what collectors, galleries and estates expect from it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>print</category><category>edition</category><category>artist&apos;s proof</category><category>provenance</category><category>exhibitions</category></item><item><title>What is a catalogue raisonné, and why does a photographer need one?</title><link>https://catalog.obscuraflow.app/en/blog/qu-est-ce-qu-un-catalogue-raisonne</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://catalog.obscuraflow.app/en/blog/qu-est-ce-qu-un-catalogue-raisonne</guid><description>Work, print, file: why a photographic work is not its file, why its number must never be reassigned, and what makes a record complete. The basics of the catalogue raisonné, applied to photography.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>catalogue raisonné</category><category>work</category><category>numbering</category><category>record</category></item></channel></rss>