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• LUNA supports IPTC, EXIF, and XMP embedded metadata
• There can be a lot of technical information with embedded metadata so in the LUNA Collection Manager make sure you choose the settings carefully for how they will display and serarch. You can choose whether or not you want the IPTC, EXIF, and XMP fields to display in the LUNA Viewer and whether or not you want them to be searchable. 
• To view the embedded metadata in the LUNA Library, select a media item, view it in the edit mode and then click in the "i" in the thumbnail. 

Manually

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enter data

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via the LUNA Library

Data records are linked to a media item. Using data records to describe a media item is the most common way of adding data to a collection. But another option is to use When you upload a .csv spreadsheet you automatically create and populate these records. But you can also manually add data to these records. Some tips on manually adding data to records in the LUNA Library:

• If a record already exists but you need to add more data to it, simply select it and chose "edit by item" in the menu or click on the icon in the left corner of the thumbnail to go into the Record Editor.
• If you need to create a new record, simply click on "New Record".
• To do a group edit, select all the items you wish to edit and select "Edit by Group" in the edit menu. Once in the group edit mode, be sure you check the box for the fields you are editing, otherwise the edits will not save. You basically need to tell LUNA exactly which of the fields you want to add or edit data to.

In addition to adding data to records, you can add data to the custom data fields. The difference between these 2 methods is that a data record can be unlinked, or separated from the media item while the custom data fields cannot. So for example, if you were to copy a media item to another collection only the media item would be copied and you'd have to create a new record for that collection but the custom data fields for that media item would be copied into that collection. It's like the data fields "live" with the media item and the only way to disassociate them is to manually delete the data field.

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