Our recommendation is to store images in MetaShare like any other type of document. If you are considering storing all your images in one place, our recommendation is to create a specific MetaShare workspace, using a unique workspace configuration with a rich media content type, e.g. “Image” that automatically extracts the EXIF metadata that is stored in the images’ file properties.
Here you have a list of the file properties that is being extracted (as of 2021-09-01) and to what SharePoint column they will be extracted to.
| Image file property | SharePoint column | Description |
| Date Taken | Date Picture Taken | |
| Authors | Author | |
| Copyright | Copyright | |
| Tags | Keywords, Enterprise Keywords | This property is copied to two SharePoint column, “Keywords” that is a text column and “Enterprise Keywords” that is managed metadata column. |
| Subject | Subject | |
| Comments | Comments | |
| Widh | Picture Width | |
| Height | Picture Height | |
| -na- | Location | Special list column generated by Microsoft Ai based on file GPS data. |
| -na- | Tags (soon to be renamed to “Image Tags”) | Special list column generated by Microsoft Ai based on image recognition. |
| -na- | Extracted Text | Special list column generated by Microsoft Ai with text found in image based on image recognition. |
If you would like to view your images in a tiles view, like this:
then do the following:
- Open the workspace in SharePoint
- Open the document library, in SharePoint’s document library
- Switch views by clicking on the drop-down for views, on the top right-hand side of the document list, and selecting the “Tiles” view:
