# Metadata: translation and programmatic

**URL:** <https://forum.pydio.com/t/metadata-translation-and-programmatic/3114>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/metadata-translation-and-programmatic/3114 "2020-02-27T15:07:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/metadata-translation-and-programmatic/3114/1 "2020-02-27T15:07:08Z")

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metadata is a **very bright point of Pydio** significantly better compared to all other software out there.  
Providing extensibility to the metadata system is really a game changer.

At some point, this could be interesting to provide a way to translate terms. This could be front-end only, and based on a user-provided javascript/json/gettext file.

Another aspect would be to provide (plugin’s developers) a way to make namespaces and metadata more _dynamic_.  
Eg: Adapt tags according to the filename, extension, uploader or guess some possible terms from exif or from an external API, set default some tags according to some context & conditions, … …

There are many possibilities one can think of, but they all depend upon being able to programmatically alter the metadata of a file and somehow alter the widget (HTML & javascript) of the metadata box.