You can now analyze object data and metadata from your Storage Insights datasets by using BigQuery ObjectRef functions.

You can now analyze object data and metadata from your Storage Insights datasets by using BigQuery ObjectRef functions. The ref column in the dataset contains a reference to the Cloud Storage object which you can use with ObjectRef functions to analyze object content. For example, you can build queries to help detect sensitive information in documents or to generate image descriptions. For more information, see Analyze object data and metadata using BigQuery.