Metadata enrichment from a former Mediabank

The article describes how to enrich metadata from previous systems as a new customer with us

Tailored Metadata enrichment

If you have used another media bank before and want to keep the metadata that is linked to the files, we can help you with this. Usually the metadata is not embedded in the files and therefore the connection needs to be made afterwards.

How to enrich with spreadsheets:

1. Ask your previous supplier to export all affected files so that you have physical access to them. This is often done by getting access to the provider's FTP server.
2. Upload the files to Mediaflow. You can upload all the files in a folder that you create at the root level and name it "Import from [another system]". If you want to keep your old folder structure, you can import the files via Mediaflow's FTP function (read more about FTP here).
3. Ask your previous supplier to send over a structured list of relevant metadata that you wish to transfer to Mediaflow. This is usually a spreadsheet (Excel etc.) or semicolon-separated CSV format.
4. The spreadsheet should contain metadata about each file in a separate line. We need to identify each unique file to link the correct data to it. Normally, images are identified by file names. Therefore, make sure that all images have a unique name.
5. We book a meeting and go through the spreadsheet line by line with you. Together, we agree on which metadata fields you want to transfer to Mediaflow and where they will be displayed in the platform.
6. We carry out the import according to the agreement at a specific time.

Files where metadata is already embedded