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Metadata and Keywords

You use Keywords and metadata to classify content.

Content retrieval and management of data depends on the effective classification and tagging of your information.

Metadata
Metadata is data about data. You can add metadata to the following item types in the Content Manager:
  • Components
  • Multimedia Components
  • Keywords
  • Publications
  • Folders and Virtual Folders
  • Structure Groups
  • Pages
  • Bundles
Keywords
Keywords—A Category is a general classification and a Keyword is a value in a Category. Keywords define a classification scheme (a taxonomy tree) that provide a knowledge map of your data. You can apply Keywords to the following content:
  • Component fields
  • Metadata fields
Note that Publications cannot be classified and do not appear as Related Items.
The following image shows how Categories and Keywords are used to define Component fields and Metadata fields: