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Metadata, Multiple authors, One document.

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    • July 20, 2010 at 7:05 am #56403
      yoshimura
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      Is it possible to tag individual stories with metadata, or somehow import individual stories already tagged into a page/spread/document to add Author metadata to each story within the single document?

    • July 20, 2010 at 7:51 pm #56413
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
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      If you use an InCopy/InDesign workflow, you can edit each story's metadata (including Author) in InCopy via File > File Info. Then, InDesign can show that in the Links panel … you can see there's an entry for Author there. You could even put Author into the Column section so you could sort by Author name. Like linked images, you can't edit the story's metadata from within InDesign, you have to do it in the external app.

      It doesn't work with linked Word files, I guess because Word doesn't use the XMP standard. But InCopy can open/convert Word files, so there's an avenue.

      AM

    • July 21, 2010 at 8:37 am #56421
      yoshimura
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      Huzzah! Thanks Anne-Marrie

      Great news for me :)

    • July 26, 2010 at 1:53 pm #56460
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
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      Excellent!

      I'd love to know how you plan to implement this, and more importantly, why. I've never encounted a company that used the Author metadata field before. What kind of a publication is it?

      AM

    • July 27, 2010 at 9:43 am #56463
      yoshimura
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      It's for a few small-medium newspapers. I'm trying to develop a workflow whereby i can send off the content of each paper from InDesign to the web, iPad and eBooks.

      I'm thinking that when I export the stories via XML, the Author metadata field can be useful for their respective websites (to sort or search by columnist/journalist).

      Unless there's another way to do it… maybe a custom XML input script in InCopy or InDesign? I'm not sure; I just started learning InDesign a couple of months ago!

      P.S. The way the staff of each paper puts their paper together in InDesign is just… horrendous :D

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