Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Plain & Simple

Chapter 7. Working with Media

In this section:

• Getting Started with Media Sharing

• Introducing the Asset Library

• Organizing with Keywords and Metadata

• Tagging and Uploading Media Files

• Using SharePoint Assets from Microsoft Office

• Adding Media to a SharePoint Page

video, audio, and image files have special significance when it comes to managing and storing content. Many of the common media file formats, such as JPG and MP3, support extended properties called metadata and involve special components for embedding and playing media on Web pages.

We touched on the concept of metadata in previous sections, but simply put, metadata contains information about content. Examples of metadata for an image file might be the date the picture was taken, the location ...