Abstract: The method and system of the preferred embodiment employs a consolidated drag and drop paradigm to provide a mechanism for handling metadata in a content management software application. This improves upon traditional prior art text-based GUIs to enable users to access metadata. In particular, the traditional text-based GUIs tend to be awkward, unwieldy and unintuitive. In contrast, the method and system of the preferred embodiment provides a simple, speedy, convenient and intuitive mechanism for handling metadata. More particularly, the preferred embodiment provides a mechanism for: adding a tag to a plurality of media objects; copying a metadata subset from one media object to a one or more other media objects; and modifying a wrong meta-datum in a set of media objects.