How to edit or add metadata How to edit or add metadata Overview / CQ / CQ 5.5 / Working with Digital Assets in DAM / Metadata is additional information about the asset that can be searched. It is automatically extracted when you upload an image. You can edit the existing metadata or add new metadata properties to existing fields (for example, when a metadata field is blank). Because companies need controlled and reliable metadata vocabularies, CQ DAM does not allow for adhoc adding of new metadata properties. Although authors cannot add new metadata fields for assets, developers can. See Creating New Metadata Property for Assets. EDITING METADATA FOR AN ASSET To edit metadata: 1. Right-click an asset and select Open or double-click an asset to open it. The Asset Editor opens displaying all of the asset's metadata. This metadata was automatically extracted when it was uploaded (ingested) into CQ DAM. 2. Make edits to the metadata, as needed, and when completed, click Save at the bottom of the screen to save your changes. You can also click Reset to reset them to the original values. NOTE If a text field is empty, there is no existing metadata set. You can enter a value into the field and save it to add that metadata property. Any changes to the metadata of an asset are written back to the original binary as part of its XMP data. This is done via CQ's Metadata write-back workflow. Changes made to the existing properties (such as dc:title) are overwritten and newly created properties (including custom properties like cq:tags) are added together with the schema. XMP write-back is supported and enabled for the following platforms and file formats: Operating Systems • • • Linux (Works out of the box on 32bit systems. Needs 32bit application support on 64bit systems) Windows Server (Supports 32bit and 64bit Architecture) Mac OS X © 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Page 1 Created on 2014-09-07 How to edit or add metadata File Formats • • • • • JPEG PNG TIFF PDF INDD CREATING NEW METADATA PROPERTY FOR ASSETS NOTE Custom namespaces (like myCompany for metadata myCompany:description) must be registered in the repository/CRX. Otherwise, saving the metadata form results in an error. You can make new metadata properties available for all assets by configuring the metadata dialog box. Currently, metadata folders reside in /libs/dam/content/asseteditors/ and are organized as follows: • Format-specific metadata reside at the path image/format/formitems.xml: for example, image/jpeg/ formitems.xml, which is used for all jpegs. • Metadata for images that do not have a more specific metadata editor reside in image/formitems.xml. This setup lets site owners better control their metadata vocabularies. NOTE DAM metadata support namespaces (such as Dublin Core). When creating a new metadata property, each property requires a namespace, for example, dc:language, dc:title, or dc:description. These namespaces are added to the appropriate metadata file to create a new property. To configure a new metadata property so that it is available for any assets that have not been explicitly configured otherwise: 1. Create /apps/dam/content/asseteditors/formitems (copy the form from /libs/dam/content/asseteditors/ formitems). 2. Add a new control and set the name to ./namespace:property e.g, ./dam:Example. 3. Save your changes. After saving, all CQ DAM users can view and edit this property. NOTE Custom namespaces (like myCompany for metadata myCompany:description) must be registered in the repository/CRX. Otherwise, saving the metadata form results in an error. © 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Page 2 Created on 2014-09-07