Metadata- What it is, why it matters, and how to capture it

Metadata is descriptive information about a manuscript. Typically metadata is any data that describes your book—including title, author name, genre, price, publication date, ISBN, and any other relevant information that helps readers to either find your book or buy your book. Metadata not only improves the visibility of a manuscript, it also aids discoverability by making it search friendly. When content is tagged with appropriate metadata, it can be pushed to the appropriate audience. Its usage can also be tracked and used to promote sales. For example, to figure out and generate product recommendations such as “people who bought this book also bought …”.

This makes it essential for authors and researchers to capture accurate and relevant metadata. But how do they make sure that information is captured where it is really needed?  Automating the capture of metadata at all stages during authoring eliminates the need for manually entering information and ensures necessary metadata is captured in a consistent manner–it’s that simple.

Where Does XEditPro Fit In All This?
XEditPro can help authors and researchers capture metadata during all stages of the manuscript. For starters, you can fill the metadata at the chapter or article level by just double-clicking on the title.

Article Metadata
Chapter Metadata

Image metadata is used to add details either regarding content of the image such as the date and time it was photographed or technical aspects of the image such as size and width of the image.

Image Metadata

XEditPro also enables metadata addition at granular box or sidebar level.

Box Metadata

This makes it possible for everyone to be benefitted: authors, peer researchers, and all of the platforms and tools that support scholarly publishing.

References

https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/records-management-advice-metadata-and-discoverability

https://docs.oracle.com/

https://amazonauthorinsights.com/post/152043707155/use-metadata-to-help-readers-find-your-book

April 12, 2021 Content Authoring Tool, Metadata Management 132 comments

Level up your authoring experience with XEditPro

XEditPro offers a start-to-finish authoring platform with all the tools at your fingertips for every stage of your manuscript. This makes a world of difference to not only create amazing author experiences but also helps you to to get to value quickly and be more productive. XEditPro also provides the opportunity to connect with other research fellows and practitioners through tools for sharing, reviewing and commenting.
As you embark on your author journey, do it with the following benefits:

Better editing & author experience

  • A growing library of predesigned templates provides a quick way to get started
  • View composed file directly using a deep link and perform content updates using a Word-like interface.
  • Author or update content in the editor pane and preview the corresponding updates in the right pane by just a click of button. Updated XML/PDF/EPUB is available instantaneously after revises.
  • Auto spell and grammar check feature helps to eliminates common error types, inconsistent terminology, contextual spelling errors and grammar mistakes.
  • EPUB and XML viewer is incorporated in XEditPro for checking EPUB and XML version within the editor.
  • Digital Asset Management (DAM) – Allows to embed images in content by uploading images from a central repository (including Metadata entry). Images can be resized, corrected, and manipulated within XEditPro itself. Editors/Authors can monitor and track rights-managed images.
  • Media and interactivity is central to the ethos of any publication and XEditPro’s straightforward insertion and manipulation capabilities comes in very handy
  • Reference creation and validation is made easy with form-like interface. References can be created adhering to styles and inserted automatically based on DOI/PubMed ID input.

Enriching the content delivers significant value

  • Metadata is captured at tables/lists/boxes/paragraph/images levels as its value increases with granularity. Metadata information includes alt text and long description.
  • Metadata is rendered automatically in EPUB.
  • VitalSource (ADA compliant PDF) is also a part of the deliveries.

Choose the authoring platform that’s right for you

XEditPro is the go-to authoring solution for students, faculty and staff as it provides all of the above benefits without the fuss of requiring knowledge of LaTeX.

January 25, 2021 Content Authoring Tool, General, Metadata Management, Reference Management No comments yet