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| Pound Hill Software Unveils MetaGrove at DAM Symposium
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| Los Angeles, CA– November 14, 2005
| Pound Hill Software introduced its new MetaGrove software toolkit at the 11th Digital Asset Management (DAM) Symposium in Los Angeles on November 14-15, 2005. MetaGrove is the world's first integrated suite of software tools for Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP). The comprehensive, robust toolkit consists of MetaGrove Developer and MetaGrove Plug-ins for Adobe's Creative Suite.
Available for both Windows and Mac platforms, MetaGrove provides for standardized cross-platform and cross-application metadata consistency, server-based support for controlled vocabularies, and the ability to automatically enforce compliance with corporate and departmental standards.
"MetaGrove lets organizations reap the full benefits of XMP metadata without the steep learning curve," said Dennis Shepard, Pound Hill's Vice President of Marketing. "The toolkit enhances the metadata capturing and storing capabilities of Adobe Creative Suite, allowing for the definition of custom schema and metadata properties, creation of custom user interfaces, and automated custom links to external media management systems."
MetaGrove Developer provides an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop environment for use by the organization's metadata expert for initial setup. It defines the metadata to be embedded in digital assets and the look and feel of the user dialogs used to collect the data. Powerful features such as auto-complete, tool tips, validation, and dynamic server support ensure complete and accurate metadata tagging.
"For end users, the control and flexibility provided by our plug-ins greatly exceed Adobe's built-in metadata capture mechanism for Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop," said Shepard. "With minimal impact on workflow, MetaGrove Plug-ins provide for intuitive, high-fidelity metadata capture directly from menu items within the Adobe applications.
MetaGrove facilitates source file repurposing and extends the lifecycle of digital assets by encouraging wide-spread acceptance and implementation of metadata as part of the day-to-day workflow. "The net result is greater productivity and efficiency — and a reduction in costly errors," added Shepard.
| | About Pound Hill Software
| Established in 2001, Pound Hill Software Inc. develops,
markets, and supports software tools that enhance the
ability of digital media professionals to tag, identify
and access today’s growing diversity of rich media
files, regardless of file format. Pound Hill Software’s
MetaGrove toolkit enriches the ability to define,
capture and display XMP metadata beyond the basic tools
in the native authoring environment.
Pound Hill Software is headquartered at 4091 E. La Palma Avenue, Suite T,
Anaheim, California 92807. For more information, call 1-86-METADATA (1-866-382-3282).
| | MetaGrove is a trademark of Pound Hill Software, Inc.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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