What you can do with metadata

Metadata empowers your DAM system - without it, your asset collections would be a bunch of files sitting in a large repository without giving you any clue as to how you could retrieve the correct assets when needed. This topic deals with some practical aspects of metadata that can help you plan the metadata implementation in your organization's DAM system.

Types of metadata the Fotoware DAM system can use

Below is an overview of the different types of metadata a Fotoware system can utilize to help users catalog and retrieve the assets stored in it

Embedded metadata or sidecars: How Fotoware stores metadata in assets

This article explains how Fotoware stores metadata in the assets in the DAM system.

Specifiers to search in specific fields

Creating search queries for Index Manager using FotoStation

With FotoStation connected to Index Manager, you can perform very advanced searches. The following options are available.

FWP protocol details

Learn the details about how the FWP protocol works in the Fotoware suite of products.

Reference of Search Expressions used to create queries in FotoWeb

Where do Fotoware applications store soft-crop information?

XMP field code reference

EXIF field code reference

A list of EXIF (Exchangeable image file format) fields that can be referenced when searching in Index Manager.

FourCC codes

Adding custom metadata fields

This guide deals with the creation of new namespaces and fields to allow you to create a bespoke metadata set for use in your organization.

Dynamic operators to help build search queries

Metadata: The differences between XMP and IPTC

How Fotoware applications handle EXIF fields

EXIF data is metadata that digital cameras and scanners produce to give information about a recording, such as shutter speed, aperture, camera orientation GPS coordinates of the shoot, image dimensions and other information.

Introduction to creating custom fields

Read this before you start making and using custom metadata fields in your Fotoware DAM system.

An overview of the metadata configuration program (MDC)

Creating a new namespace

To create new metadata fields for use in your DAM system, you must first create a new namespace to contain them.

Adding fields to a namespace

Having created a namespace you can start creating fields and choosing their content types.

Making all Fotoware servers and clients use a new metadata definition

This topic explains how to distribute the metadata definition to all Fotoware servers and clients in your system so they can read and write information to the new fields.

Exporting and importing namespaces in the Metadata configuration

How to export a single namespace to a file for distribution to other Fotoware servers or clients in the network.

Enabling multi-language metadata support

This topic explains how to enable multi-language metadata support and important considerations to make in that regard.