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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.

Procedure

  1. Open a Component or Multimedia Component and define Metadata in the item's Metadata tab.
  2. Open a Publication, Folder, Virtual Folder, Structure Group, or Page. In the General tab, select a Metadata Schema from the drop-down list. When you have selected a Metadata Schema, the metadata fields defined by the schema appear. The following image shows a Metadata Schema applied to a Page:
  3. Open a Category. In the General tab, select a Default Metadata Schema from the drop-down list and save the Category:
    Open a Keyword in the Category. The default Metadata Schema is applied to child Keywords when created, allowing you to define metadata (note that you may select a different Metadata Schema):

Results

To define metadata fields using Keywords, see Adding Keywords to fields.