ar exports</h3>
Metadata for images and other file types can be stored in (exported to) separate metadata files. Exiftool supports and can create a number of these metadata files. The XMP "sidecar" file is probably the best know format. Other supported metadata file types are EXIF, XMP, MIE (<a href="https://exiftool.org/commentary.html" target="_blank">"The only format that doesn't suck"</a>) and EXV.
jExifToolGUI can export all contained metadata in images and other files that Exiftool supports, and this 