Pain:  Our legacy CMS has limited options for adding custom data to images or assets. This has been very limiting for us, especially when working to integrate 3rd-party solutions such as AI-based image analysis, rights management and archival system add-ons. 

Pill:  Openstore, Openstore APIs

Description:  Openstore’s APIs offer an easy way for third-party developers to add custom information and data to images throughout their workflow. This flexibility allows developers to store context-specific metadata with each image, such as custom tags, editorial notes, or other relevant details that provide more insight into the image's usage or context. Since Openstore imposes no limit on the amount of custom data that can be associated with an image, it becomes much easier to track, categorize, and personalize images based on their specific use cases. This capability enhances the organization and accessibility of images within the system.

Proof:  By providing new ways for both our in-house and third-party developers to add custom metadata to images based on their specific characteristics and usage, we believe that Openstore and its APIs will enhance our ability to discover content accurately, improve our workflow integration, and foster better collaboration with our third-party developers. 

Keywords: custom data, extra data, third party developers

Third party developers may need to add extra data in own namespace, that is possible with the API call ADD_IMAGE_EXTRA_DATA

• Developer of third party software needs custom data on images when placed in article

• API call UPDATE_IMAGE_EXTRA_DATA to add key/value of choice

• Adding "placed in article"

• API call GET_IMAGE_INFO returns standard image info + extra data key/values list, third party developer can make necessary actions with extra data

• Images can have unlimited numbers of extra data, keys are unique