Advanced metadata & taxonomy in DAM

Orange DAM lets you easily add and enrich your digital asset management metadata. Develop controlled vocabularies that let you find what you need when you need it.

Simplify the way you add metadata

• Opt to make certain metadata fields mandatory upon ingest.
• Ingest metadata in batches from internal or external sources.
• Add embedded metadata to Orange DAM fields during ingest, including metadata from IPTC, EXIF, XMP, and DICOM® files.
• Import metadata from CSV or XML metafiles, or download a CSV of metadata, edit it, and re-upload it.
• Import metadata via sidecar metafiles — in other words, you can import metadata that isn’t directly attached to your asset.
• Manually enter metadata.
• Enable AI tagging to automatically identify keywords for images and videos.
• Avoid certain terms when auto-tagging with an auto-tagging blacklist.

Customize your metadata fields

• Get an unlimited number of customizable metadata fields for digital assets and their containers, including text fields, dates, checkboxes, controlled values, and more.
• Create metadata sets that apply to specific types of assets.
• Administrators can limit the options available to other digital asset management users or prevent them from creating their own values.
  
  Learn 7 Metadata Best Practices.

Develop a taxonomy that works for your enterprise

• Import a thesaurus to your digital asset management system from an external source.
• Add ingested metadata to your thesaurus.
• Utilize controlled vocabularies in multiple languages.
• Create parent/child relationships between tags.
• Create synonym relationships between tags and define which term is preferred.
• Add usage instructions and notes to tags.
• Organize tags into categories.
• Exclude certain tags from being suggested during search.
• Limit who can create and edit tags.
• If you update a tag, it’ll be changed throughout Orange DAM.
• View the different versions of a tag, including which user changed the asset, the timestamp, and the before/after value. Implement metadata & taxonomy for digital asset management best practices to ensure consistent and efficient tag management.

Enrich assets by extending your metadata

• Batch edit metadata and tags on selected groups of assets.
• Speed up digital asset management tagging with tools like autocomplete.
• Generate time-based annotations on video assets by adding time-stamped text files such as closed caption files or transcripts.
• Add manual time-based annotations to video assets.
• Let child folders inherit selected metadata from their parent folder.
• Allow third-party agencies to upload content and enter required metadata.
• Tag content with your choice of metadata, including the creation date, author or owner, credit, keywords, and rights.
• Link related metadata using paired fields.