In order to map an IPTC/Exif/XMP tag name to a ResourceSpace field, you can enter the ExifTool-supported tag name(s) in the 'Exiftool field' box in the metadata field settings for that field. You must have ExifTool (a command-line interface to a PERL library) installed and enabled (the path must be specified) in config.php or auto-detected during the setup routine. Many different profiles are supported in addition to Exif, including XMP, IPTC, GPS, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3. This is extremely flexible and any metadata present in a file can be mapped to ResourceSpace fields. ResourceSpace makes use of the open source ExifTool utility to read and write metadata. Mapping metadata when using the ExifTool utility This synchronisation can be two way, so that imported metadata can be automatically extracted into a configured field, but also that metadata added to the resource after import is written back to the file at download.

ResourceSpace is able to map between embedded metadata stored in your original files and the metadata fields in ResourceSpace itself.

Exiftool commands to extract metadata