Metadata
Adding Alt Text
At Permanent, our mission is to preserve and provide perpetual access to the digital legacy of all people for the historical and educational benefit of future generations. Because of this mission, we hope to ensure that all people can access these ...
Custom Metadata Options
While Permanent.org has a number of metadata fields you can use to describe your files, Permanent.org now has the ability to add additional metadata fields using the Custom Metadata tagging feature. Custom Metadata allows you to use a "field:value" ...
How Permanent.org Reads Embedded File Metadata
When you upload a file to your Permanent.org archive, we use select metadata embedded within the file to populate our Permanent metadata fields. If you are interested in using this feature to populate Permanent metadata fields, the following article ...
Using Dublin Core Metadata on Permanent.org
A major part of digital preservation and the access of digital materials online is metadata. Metadata about files and archives provides the context of the photograph, document, video, or other file and tells the story behind the file. It also allows ...
Manage Tags
The Manage Tags feature in the Archive Settings allows members of the archive with the correct permissions (learn more about permissions here) to quickly and efficiently manage the tags used in that archive. Search for, edit, and delete tags within ...
Adding Metadata
You can add metadata, or additional descriptive information, to your files and folders in your Permanent archive. Files and folders have metadata fields for the name, description, tags, date, and location. You can find this information by clicking on ...