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  METAGROVE   METAGROVE PLUG-IN FOR INDESIGN
MetaGrove Developer
Price: $249.00

MetaGrove Plug-in for InCopy
Price: $199.00
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 Latest News
August 24, 2010
PLUS dialog updated
PLUS v1.2.0
PRISM Metadata for Images - Draft D dialog
PMI Draft D
August 9, 2010
IPTC Photo Metadata dialog updated.
IPTC Photo Metadata
July 12, 2010
DIMOC dialog released.
DIMOC
April 23, 2010
AdsML Ad Ticket schema and dialog updated.
AdsML Ad Ticket


MetaGrove provides intuitive, high-fidelity metadata capture via a menu item directly within InDesign.

Update the metadata while the layout file is already open in InDesign, saving the "locate, open, and save" overheads incurred with a seperate metadata-only application.

Standard XMP MetaGrove dialog examples:
  PRISM - for magazine and journal publishers
  IPTC - for newspaper publishers
  AdsML Ad Ticket- for advertising agencies
  GWG Ad Ticket - for advertising agencies
  Medibel Ad Ticket - for advertising agencies

Publishers can implement custom schema properties and MetaGrove dialogs with the companion MetaGrove Developer which take advantage of the full depth of XMP's capability to match the natural organization of their metadata.

Available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
  MetaGrove for InDesign $199.00
  System requirements:
  Adobe InDesign CS3, CS2
  Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard
  Windows XP or Vista


MetaGrove Benefits:

  • Simplifies and facilitates metadata capture and exchange for improved workflow, increased productivity, and lower costs.
  • Enables fast, easy creation of smart digital assets that retain context when passed across multiple file formats, software applications, devices, and databases.
  • Sets foundation for flexible search and retrieval of rich media across diverse file formats and databases.
  • Enables rapid repurposing of digital assets.

MetaGrove Features:

  • Custom metadata Schemas. Choose from industry standard schemas, create your own, or create a combination.
  • Controlled Vocabulary. Controlled vocabularies are typically contained inside the Dialog (.mcr) file. Optionally, a vocabulary can be an external, tab delimited file, either local or remote.
  • Help Tags and Tool Tips. Mouse-over accessible explanation fields increase the speed and accuracy of metadata capture.
  • Required Fields. Optional required fields ensure that all essential metadata is captured.
  • Auto-Complete. Fields with commonly used values are automatically filled with just a few keystrokes, increasing the consistency, speed and accuracy of metadata capture.
  • Dynamic Data Support. Optionally query a web server to complete fields based upon the contents other fields in the panel.
  • Default Values. A optional default value can be specified for each field in the dialog.
  • Data Validation. Default, and optional additional, validation is evaluated as the user completes a field entry. An alert message advises correction details. Invalid metadata is never saved.

Related Dialogs and Schemas

Adobe XMP Specification

- Dublin Core (dc:)

- XMP Basic Schema (xmp:)

- XMP Rights Management (xmpRights:)

- XMP Media Management (xmpMM:)

- XMP Basic Job Ticket (xmpBJ:)

- XMP Paged Text (xmpTPg:)

- Adobe PDF (pdf:)


Publishing Workflows

- IPTC Core (Iptc4xmpCore:) (International Press Telecommunications Council)

- PRISM (prism:) (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata)

- PRISM Usage Rights (pur:)


Advertising Workflows

- Ghent PDF Workgroup Ad Ticket and Delivery Note

- AdsML Ad Ticket

- Medibel+ Ad Ticket


PDF/A Extension


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