Note: If you are adding a new group don’t the group code as AIDA. AIDA group code is internally used and reserved. Open Zoom Web Management Console. Typically the URL for Zoom Web Management Console is: https://zoom-server:9443 Go to the System -> Metadata Editor section. Select the group name which you want to allow in […]
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There are 5 pre-defined entity references in XML: Escaped Entity Reference User Visible XML character Description < < less than > > greater than & & ampersand ' ‘ apostrophe " “ quotation mark Before you use the Web Admin > Metadata Editor > Import from XML function or if you are live editing the
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Zoom allows restrictions to be imposed on numbers of characters allowed in a string type metadata field at the time of ingest and during manual update. Follow these steps to apply this restriction: Log into the Web Management Console at http://[YourZoomServer]:8443 using your preferred web browser. Open Server Control Panel page from the left sidebar.
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Steps to resize the metadata panel inside Asset Browser Open settings panel Click metadata tab Select “Show Metadata Header” Click the save button. It will show header on the metadata panel – Drag the separator between the headers to change the column size
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From Zoom 6.0 onwards, Zoom administrators can edit the system-wide metadata schema from within the Web Management console’s Metadata Editor page. Open the Metadata Editor page under the System node in the Admin Menu sidebar. The metadata schema is saved in the metadataspec.xml present in your Zoom installation’s conf/ folder. The page has three
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If you need to add the ampersand character in a metadata property name or value, adding the “&” character directly as is in the schema xml file would not work. Instead, please use the equivalents as shown below: <field ns=”zoom” name=”ArchiveStatus” label=”Archive& Status”/> OR <field ns=”zoom” name=”ArchiveStatus” label=”Archive& Status”/>
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Target Audience: This article is targeted at system administrator who are comfortable with command line tools. If you are not please ask your system administrator to help you upload bulk metadata in Zoom. Zoom supports import of assets as well as metadata using the command line interface. This will allow you to import either assets
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For some file types like MP4, Embedded metadata is not visible in Asset Browser. Please follow the instruction below to resolve it. Solution Open the metadataspec.xml Add the format under xmpSupportedFormats tag. File types must be valid xmpsupported type Restart the zoom server. Check-in file again.
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Please ensure the file type (MP4 in this case) is added to the metadataspec.xml file, see this article for more details.
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Its very easy to assign multiple Keywords to multiple Assets Select the Assets from the Central Panel Select keywords from the Keywords Panel Assign any one of the selected Keyword, and it will assign all the selected keywords to the selected Assets. For more information look inside Keywords
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This means that mandatory metadata is enabled in your server. Make sure to save the default metadata preset before trying these actions. Click here to learn how to save default Metadata Preset.
Through Metadata Presets we can create a number of metadata templates which can be applied to the mandatory metadata form at runtime. This feature is available from Zoom 5.5 onwards. Steps to create Metadata Presets Open mandatory metadata form using any action like check-in, smart-copy, upload. Enter the metadata values. Click on Save icon. To
In Zoom 5.0 and below, metadata fields visible in the Asset Browser were configured through property files on the server: metaspec/*.properties xmptype.properties xmpsupported.properties In Zoom 5.1 and greater, all configurations related to metadata have been merged into a single XML file: metadataspec.xml For users who are upgrading Zoom from 5.0 or below to 5.1 or
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Zoom allows an organization to define custom metadata beyond the standard IPTC/EXIF fields that may be embedded inside an XMP section in a file. Please use the attached Excel form to brainstorm the custom metadata fields and grouping for your organization. Once you have filled in the form your metadata administrator or Evolphin Professional Services
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Metadata API Zoom metadata can be fetched by the Zoom Find command easily. Once you have the desired metadata for an asset, you can edit it using the SetMetadata API as described below. Request URL: Authentication Parameters: zm_username=<zoom-username> zm_cookie=<zoom-auth-cookie>, or, zm_password=<zoom-password> You should specify either one of the “zm_cookie” parameter or the “zm_password” parameter. If
What is Metadata In Zoom, metadata is additional information about an asset. Commonly, this described as “data about data”. It is information that describes an asset beyond the digital data that is contained within it. This can include a variety of information from title, description, location, and a variety of other types of metadata. These
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Mandatory Metadata is a feature added from Zoom 5.1 onwards, that allows administrators to require users to input metadata before assets can be ingested into Zoom. This encourages users to input metadata which makes assets more searchable for users. Once enabled, all new assets or new revisions of assets must adhere to the Mandatory Metadata
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