Knowledge Base

Metadata report

The advanced metadata tools in ResourceSpace all help to ensure that you’re able to locate the relevant resources whenever you need them.

But files can have metadata embedded in them before they’re uploaded to the system too.  To help you manage this, the metadata report is a useful way to review all of the embedded metadata in your resources:

Using the report, you’re also able to check which embedded metadata fields are being mapped into your ResourceSpace metadata template.

The Metadata report can be enabled via Admin > System > Configuration > Metadata:

Once it’s enabled on your system, you’ll see an expandable tab at the bottom of each resource preview page, below the consent and licensing sections (if those are enabled).

Many professional photographers use embedded metadata to add by-lines and other useful information about their work, so it can be worth checking the metadata reports in case there’s anything you’d like to map into a field in ResourceSpace to make it searchable.

There’s also usually a lot of technical information, which can be useful to hold on to in some instances. For more tips around metadata mapping for both uploading into and downloading from ResourceSpace, see our full guide to metadata read/write mapping.