Defining metadata
You can add metadata to Components and Multimedia Components, Publications, Folders and Virtual Folders, Structure Groups, and Pages, and Categories and Keywords.
Before you begin
- To allow users to add metadata to Components and Multimedia Components, the Component Schema or Multimedia Schema must have metadata fields defined.
- To allow users to add metadata to Publications, Folders and Virtual Folders, Structure Groups, Pages and Keywords, you must have defined a Metadata Schema.
About this task
Component metadata can include for example Author name, Author email, Publish date, Offline date. Multimedia Component metadata, for a photographic image for example, can include details such as the date the photograph was taken and details of the camera settings such as lens, focal length, aperture, shutter timing.