Part of #378; copied from https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/2887#issuecomment-405...
I was playing around with D8 core and contrib media-related modules, and this specific feature drew my attention:

...so, media types have this "Field mapping" feature (the screenshot above is for the "Image" media type), which allows you to store metadata information to entity fields. I know we are a long way from anything like that (or are we?), and I don't wanna derail this issue here, but I thought that we could perhaps be using this to be automatically storing EXIF data to such a field (that we could be hiding by default). This could help us retain the EXIF data across any edit operations I believe.
Just a thought.
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I adjusted the subject slightly.
CKEditor Inline Images not saved as Permanent in Term descriptions
It looks like it's a known issue with a PR. You might want to test this PR and respond in the issue itself.
CKEditor Inline Images not saved as Permanent in Term descriptions
Actually, that caused me to look a bit closer. This is in description fields on taxonomy terms. It looks like it doesn't do that on standard nodes. I am building a "catalog" (although it...
CKEditor Inline Images not saved as Permanent in Term descriptions