Art Asset & File HandlingPurpose
1.2. Enable efficient digital asset management, rapid client inquiries, portfolio curation, and copyright audits.
1.3. Facilitate integration of extracted metadata with CRM, content management, and search platforms for airbrushing service workflows.
1.4. Provide structured, actionable data for downstream marketing, billing, and legal compliance tasks.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. File modification detected in monitored asset folders.
2.3. Manual or API invocation for batch metadata extraction.
2.4. Scheduled scans for newly added or changed files.
Platform Variants
3.1. Adobe Creative Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Creative Cloud API—Configure to detect uploads to Libraries, extract XMP and IPTC metadata.
3.2. Google Drive
• Feature/Setting: Drive API—Monitor folder, process file uploads; use Google Apps Script to extract and forward metadata.
3.3. Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: Dropbox Webhooks and API—Trigger on file creation/change, parse file metadata, push results to asset manager.
3.4. Box
• Feature/Setting: Box API (Events, Metadata Templates)—Track file movements, extract custom audio/visual tags.
3.5. OneDrive
• Feature/Setting: Graph API—React to file addition events, parse images for EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata.
3.6. SmugMug
• Feature/Setting: SmugMug API—Retrieve photo details, expose artist, resolution, keywords via endpoint.
3.7. Zenfolio
• Feature/Setting: Zenfolio API—Set up to receive newly uploaded asset alerts, collect and export metadata.
3.8. AWS S3
• Feature/Setting: S3 Events—Invoke Lambda on object create, Lambda extracts and stores metadata in DynamoDB.
3.9. Azure Blob Storage
• Feature/Setting: Blob Storage Event Grid—Process blobs as they arrive, extract metadata with Azure Function.
3.10. Google Cloud Storage
• Feature/Setting: Event notifications—Trigger Cloud Function, read and parse file metadata embedded in uploads.
3.11. ImageKit
• Feature/Setting: Media Library API—Identify new art assets, extract content and custom metadata fields.
3.12. Cloudinary
• Feature/Setting: Admin API—Monitor incoming uploads, use ‘Explicit’ endpoint for deep metadata extraction.
3.13. Imgur
• Feature/Setting: Imgur API—Automate file fetch, retrieve image details and user-defined tags.
3.14. Flickr
• Feature/Setting: Flickr API—Poll for new uploads, extract user-supplied and system-generated metadata.
3.15. SharePoint
• Feature/Setting: REST API—Monitor libraries, extract default and custom column metadata on new files.
3.16. Egnyte
• Feature/Setting: Egnyte API—Listen to file events, collect asset-level metadata from photo uploads.
3.17. DigitalOcean Spaces
• Feature/Setting: Spaces Events—Trigger webhook or Lambda-like process for asset metadata extraction.
3.18. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Airtable API—Sync extracted metadata to structured records for easy lookup and filtering.
3.19. Notion
• Feature/Setting: Notion API—Automate population of art asset database with new metadata fields.
3.20. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Monday API—Create/update items in project boards with extracted asset metadata.
3.21. M-Files
• Feature/Setting: M-Files API—Map new document objects to asset types, autopopulate metadata fields.
Benefits
4.2. Enables real-time searchability and lightning-fast asset retrieval by staff and clients.
4.3. Supports compliance with copyright, attribution, and digital rights requirements.
4.4. Simplifies integration with billing, CRM, and client-facing portfolio solutions.
4.5. Facilitates trend analysis and high-value asset identification through centralized metadata.