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Metadata Quality Score.
Visualize 500,000+ rows of metadata in 90 seconds. See exactly where your library is leaking.
MQS scores your DAM library against your taxonomy. Upload a metadata export, and the tool tells you which fields are incomplete, which controlled vocabularies are drifting, where placeholder values are building up, and which assets are missing the metadata that matters most.
The score is not a vanity metric. It is a structured report you can share with your team or your leadership. It points to specific workflows that need a fix, not to vague "data quality problems." If you have ever tried to explain to a stakeholder why the DAM's search results feel off, MQS gives you the answer in a form they can actually act on.
What MQS measures
- Completeness: what percentage of required fields are filled, broken down by asset cohort, source, and date
- Vocabulary consistency: where the same concept is spelled five different ways across a field (the "EMEA / Emea / Europe, Middle East, and Africa" problem)
- Placeholder detection: how much "Untitled," "TBD," or "asdf" is sitting in your library
- Field uniqueness: whether your title, description, and keyword fields are doing different jobs or just echoing each other
- Distribution shape: whether metadata coverage is even across the library or concentrated in a few cohorts
How it pairs with the rest of DAM Cowboy
MQS is the quantitative companion to the six-question diagnostic. The diagnostic tells you qualitatively whether your DAM is working. MQS gives you the numbers. Use them together: walk the diagnostic to understand which questions are weak, then run MQS to see the underlying data.
Status
MQS is live as a standalone tool today and is being migrated into the DAM Cowboy toolkit. The tool itself stays the same: same scoring model, same data handling, same workflow. The migration only changes where it lives.
If you are an existing MQS user, you will get an announcement when the migration is complete with one-click access. If you are new and want to use MQS, the fastest path is to subscribe to The Roundup below; the launch announcement goes there first.
Data and privacy
MQS processes metadata exports you upload. We do not retain the raw data beyond the scoring run, we do not share it with anyone, and we do not use it for any other purpose. Full details live in the privacy policy.
MQS lives at metadataqualityscore.com today. When the migration here is complete, it will run from this page; existing users keep their work.