Pound Hill Software, a leading developer of metadata software tools, today announced the release of MetaGrove Suite 1.0 for Windows XP platform. New software is now available for general public and available for purchase at Pound Hill Software website. MetaGrove is a software suite of products that provide XMP metadata capabilities to users of Adobe Creative Suite CS2.

The MetaGrove Suite toolset optimizes descriptive metadata to fuel digital workflows. Plug-ins on Windows platform are available for Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. Building on Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) open-source labeling technology, MetaGrove improves digital media workflows and allows repurposing of digital assets by making digital media files easier to describe and faster to find.

The MetaGrove Suite provides standardized cross-platform and cross-application metadata consistency and the ability to automatically enforce compliance with corporate and departmental standards. MetaGrove Suite toolset 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 end result is greater productivity and efficiency.

Applications within the MetaGrove Suite toolset are simply installed as plug-ins in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat. Once installed, schemas are instantly available as menu items within above named applications. In addition, all of the expanded XMP capabilities offered by the standard MetaGrove plug-in are available to the user. “If you are looking for the easy way to label and repurpose your assets, we are confident that you will find your answer within our tools”, said Jury Balta, Product Marketing Manager at Pound Hill Software.

Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling technology known as metadata that allows you to embed data about a file, into the file itself. With XMP, desktop applications and back-end publishing systems gain a common method for capturing, sharing, and leveraging this valuable metadata — opening the door for more efficient job processing, workflow automation, and rights management, among many other possibilities.