diff --git a/sql/json/revision_metadata.translated_metadata.json b/sql/json/revision_metadata.translated_metadata.json
--- a/sql/json/revision_metadata.translated_metadata.json
+++ b/sql/json/revision_metadata.translated_metadata.json
@@ -34,9 +34,6 @@
           "url": {
               "type": "list"
           },
-          "type": {
-              "type": "list"
-          },
           "license": {
               "type": "list"
           },
diff --git a/swh/indexer/__init__.py b/swh/indexer/__init__.py
--- a/swh/indexer/__init__.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/__init__.py
@@ -14,13 +14,16 @@
 
 
 TASK_NAMES = {
-    'orchestrator_all': 'swh.indexer.tasks.SWHOrchestratorAllContentsTask',
-    'orchestrator_text': 'swh.indexer.tasks.SWHOrchestratorTextContentsTask',
-    'mimetype': 'swh.indexer.tasks.SWHContentMimetypeTask',
-    'language': 'swh.indexer.tasks.SWHContentLanguageTask',
-    'ctags': 'swh.indexer.tasks.SWHCtagsTask',
-    'fossology_license': 'swh.indexer.tasks.SWHContentFossologyLicenseTask',
-    'rehash': 'swh.indexer.tasks.SWHRecomputeChecksumsTask',
+    'orchestrator_all': 'swh.indexer.tasks.OrchestratorAllContentsTask',
+    'orchestrator_text': 'swh.indexer.tasks.OrchestratorTextContentsTask',
+    'mimetype': 'swh.indexer.tasks.ContentMimetypeTask',
+    'language': 'swh.indexer.tasks.ContentLanguageTask',
+    'ctags': 'swh.indexer.tasks.CtagsTask',
+    'fossology_license': 'swh.indexer.tasks.ContentFossologyLicenseTask',
+    'rehash': 'swh.indexer.tasks.RecomputeChecksumsTask',
+    'revision_metadata': 'swh.indexer.tasks.RevisionMetadataTask',
+    'origin_intrinsic_metadata':
+    'swh.indexer.tasks.OriginMetadataTask',
 }
 
 
diff --git a/swh/indexer/indexer.py b/swh/indexer/indexer.py
--- a/swh/indexer/indexer.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/indexer.py
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@
         pass
 
     @abc.abstractmethod
-    def run(self, ids, policy_update):
+    def run(self, ids, policy_update, **kwargs):
         """Given a list of ids:
 
         - retrieves the data from the storage
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@
             ids ([bytes]): id's identifier list
             policy_update ([str]): either 'update-dups' or 'ignore-dups' to
             respectively update duplicates or ignore them
+            **kwargs: passed to the `index` method
 
         """
         pass
@@ -346,7 +347,7 @@
 
     """
 
-    def run(self, ids, policy_update):
+    def run(self, ids, policy_update, **kwargs):
         """Given a list of ids:
 
         - retrieve the content from the storage
@@ -358,6 +359,7 @@
             policy_update ([str]): either 'update-dups' or 'ignore-dups' to
                                    respectively update duplicates or ignore
                                    them
+            **kwargs: passed to the `index` method
 
         """
         results = []
@@ -369,12 +371,13 @@
                     self.log.warn('Content %s not found in objstorage' %
                                   hashutil.hash_to_hex(sha1))
                     continue
-                res = self.index(sha1, raw_content)
+                res = self.index(sha1, raw_content, **kwargs)
                 if res:  # If no results, skip it
                     results.append(res)
 
             self.persist_index_computations(results, policy_update)
-            self.next_step(results)
+            self.results = results
+            return self.next_step(results)
         except Exception:
             self.log.exception(
                 'Problem when reading contents metadata.')
@@ -393,7 +396,7 @@
     class.
 
     """
-    def run(self, ids, policy_update, parse_ids=False):
+    def run(self, ids, policy_update, parse_ids=False, **kwargs):
         """Given a list of origin ids:
 
         - retrieve origins from storage
@@ -408,6 +411,7 @@
                                    them
             parse_ids ([bool]: If `True`, will try to convert `ids`
                                from a human input to the valid type.
+            **kwargs: passed to the `index` method
 
         """
         if parse_ids:
@@ -426,20 +430,22 @@
             elif isinstance(id_, int):
                 params = {'id': id_}
             else:
-                raise TypeError('Invalid value for "ids": %r' % id_)
+                raise TypeError('Invalid value in "ids": %r' % id_)
             origin = self.storage.origin_get(params)
             if not origin:
                 self.log.warn('Origins %s not found in storage' %
                               list(ids))
                 continue
             try:
-                res = self.index(origin)
+                res = self.index(origin, **kwargs)
                 if origin:  # If no results, skip it
                     results.append(res)
             except Exception:
                 self.log.exception(
                         'Problem when processing origin %s' % id_)
         self.persist_index_computations(results, policy_update)
+        self.results = results
+        return self.next_step(results)
 
 
 class RevisionIndexer(BaseIndexer):
@@ -482,3 +488,5 @@
                 self.log.exception(
                         'Problem when processing revision')
         self.persist_index_computations(results, policy_update)
+        self.results = results
+        return self.next_step(results)
diff --git a/swh/indexer/metadata.py b/swh/indexer/metadata.py
--- a/swh/indexer/metadata.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/metadata.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import click
 import logging
 
-from swh.indexer.indexer import ContentIndexer, RevisionIndexer
+from swh.indexer.indexer import ContentIndexer, RevisionIndexer, OriginIndexer
 from swh.indexer.metadata_dictionary import compute_metadata
 from swh.indexer.metadata_detector import detect_metadata
 from swh.indexer.metadata_detector import extract_minimal_metadata_dict
@@ -266,6 +266,62 @@
         return min_metadata
 
 
+class OriginMetadataIndexer(OriginIndexer):
+    def filter(self, ids):
+        return ids
+
+    def run(self, revisions_metadata, policy_update, *, origin_head_pairs):
+        """Expected to be called with the result of RevisionMetadataIndexer
+        as first argument; ie. not a list of ids as other indexers would.
+
+        Args:
+
+            * `revisions_metadata` (List[dict]): contains metadata from
+              revisions, along with the respective revision ids. It is
+              passed by RevisionMetadataIndexer via a Celery chain
+              triggered by OriginIndexer.next_step.
+            * `policy_update`: `'ignore-dups'` or `'update-dups'`
+            * `origin_head_pairs` (List[dict]): list of dictionaries with
+              keys `origin_id` and `revision_id`, which is the result
+              of OriginHeadIndexer.
+        """
+        origin_head_map = {pair['origin_id']: pair['revision_id']
+                           for pair in origin_head_pairs}
+
+        # Fix up the argument order. revisions_metadata has to be the
+        # first argument because of celery.chain; the next line calls
+        # run() with the usual order, ie. origin ids first.
+        return super().run(ids=list(origin_head_map),
+                           policy_update=policy_update,
+                           revisions_metadata=revisions_metadata,
+                           origin_head_map=origin_head_map)
+
+    def index(self, origin, *, revisions_metadata, origin_head_map):
+        # Get the last revision of the origin.
+        revision_id = origin_head_map[origin['id']]
+
+        # Get the metadata of that revision, and return it
+        for revision_metadata in revisions_metadata:
+            if revision_metadata['id'] == revision_id:
+                return {
+                        'origin_id': origin['id'],
+                        'metadata': revision_metadata['translated_metadata'],
+                        'from_revision': revision_id,
+                        'indexer_configuration_id':
+                        revision_metadata['indexer_configuration_id'],
+                        }
+
+        # If you get this KeyError with a message like this:
+        #   'foo' not in [b'foo']
+        # you should check you're not using JSON as task serializer
+        raise KeyError('%r not in %r' %
+                       (revision_id, [r['id'] for r in revisions_metadata]))
+
+    def persist_index_computations(self, results, policy_update):
+        self.idx_storage.origin_intrinsic_metadata_add(
+            results, conflict_update=(policy_update == 'update-dups'))
+
+
 @click.command()
 @click.option('--revs', '-i',
               help='Default sha1_git to lookup', multiple=True)
diff --git a/swh/indexer/origin_head.py b/swh/indexer/origin_head.py
--- a/swh/indexer/origin_head.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/origin_head.py
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@
 import click
 import logging
 
+from celery import chain
+
 from swh.indexer.indexer import OriginIndexer
+from swh.indexer.tasks import OriginMetadataTask, RevisionMetadataTask
 
 
 class OriginHeadIndexer(OriginIndexer):
@@ -26,14 +29,43 @@
         }),
     }
 
+    CONFIG_BASE_FILENAME = 'indexer/origin_head'
+
+    revision_metadata_task = RevisionMetadataTask()
+    origin_intrinsic_metadata_task = OriginMetadataTask()
+
     def filter(self, ids):
         yield from ids
 
     def persist_index_computations(self, results, policy_update):
-        """Do nothing. The indexer's results are not persistant, they
+        """Do nothing. The indexer's results are not persistent, they
         should only be piped to another indexer via the orchestrator."""
         pass
 
+    def next_step(self, results):
+        """Once the head is found, call the RevisionMetadataIndexer
+        on these revisions, then call the OriginMetadataIndexer with
+        both the origin_id and the revision metadata, so it can copy the
+        revision metadata to the origin's metadata.
+
+        Args:
+            results (Iterable[dict]): Iterable of return values from `index`.
+
+        """
+        if self.revision_metadata_task is None and \
+                self.origin_intrinsic_metadata_task is None:
+            return
+        assert self.revision_metadata_task is not None
+        assert self.origin_intrinsic_metadata_task is not None
+        return chain(
+                self.revision_metadata_task.s(
+                    ids=[res['revision_id'] for res in results],
+                    policy_update='update-dups'),
+                self.origin_intrinsic_metadata_task.s(
+                    origin_head_pairs=results,
+                    policy_update='update-dups'),
+                )()
+
     # Dispatch
 
     def index(self, origin):
diff --git a/swh/indexer/tasks.py b/swh/indexer/tasks.py
--- a/swh/indexer/tasks.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/tasks.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 import logging
 
-from swh.scheduler.task import Task
+import celery
 
 from .orchestrator import OrchestratorAllContentsIndexer
 from .orchestrator import OrchestratorTextContentsIndexer
@@ -14,43 +14,61 @@
 from .ctags import CtagsIndexer
 from .fossology_license import ContentFossologyLicenseIndexer
 from .rehash import RecomputeChecksums
+from .metadata import RevisionMetadataIndexer, OriginMetadataIndexer
 
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
 
 
-class SWHOrchestratorAllContentsTask(Task):
+class Task(celery.Task):
+    def run_task(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        indexer = self.Indexer().run(*args, **kwargs)
+        return indexer.results
+
+
+class OrchestratorAllContentsTask(Task):
     """Main task in charge of reading batch contents (of any type) and
     broadcasting them back to other tasks.
 
     """
     task_queue = 'swh_indexer_orchestrator_content_all'
 
-    def run_task(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        OrchestratorAllContentsIndexer().run(*args, **kwargs)
+    Indexer = OrchestratorAllContentsIndexer
 
 
-class SWHOrchestratorTextContentsTask(Task):
+class OrchestratorTextContentsTask(Task):
     """Main task in charge of reading batch contents (of type text) and
     broadcasting them back to other tasks.
 
     """
     task_queue = 'swh_indexer_orchestrator_content_text'
 
-    def run_task(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        OrchestratorTextContentsIndexer().run(*args, **kwargs)
+    Indexer = OrchestratorTextContentsIndexer
+
+
+class RevisionMetadataTask(Task):
+    task_queue = 'swh_indexer_revision_metadata'
+
+    serializer = 'msgpack'
 
+    Indexer = RevisionMetadataIndexer
 
-class SWHContentMimetypeTask(Task):
+
+class OriginMetadataTask(Task):
+    task_queue = 'swh_indexer_origin_intrinsic_metadata'
+
+    Indexer = OriginMetadataIndexer
+
+
+class ContentMimetypeTask(Task):
     """Task which computes the mimetype, encoding from the sha1's content.
 
     """
     task_queue = 'swh_indexer_content_mimetype'
 
-    def run_task(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        ContentMimetypeIndexer().run(*args, **kwargs)
+    Indexer = ContentMimetypeIndexer
 
 
-class SWHContentLanguageTask(Task):
+class ContentLanguageTask(Task):
     """Task which computes the language from the sha1's content.
 
     """
@@ -60,31 +78,28 @@
         ContentLanguageIndexer().run(*args, **kwargs)
 
 
-class SWHCtagsTask(Task):
+class CtagsTask(Task):
     """Task which computes ctags from the sha1's content.
 
     """
     task_queue = 'swh_indexer_content_ctags'
 
-    def run_task(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        CtagsIndexer().run(*args, **kwargs)
+    Indexer = CtagsIndexer
 
 
-class SWHContentFossologyLicenseTask(Task):
+class ContentFossologyLicenseTask(Task):
     """Task which computes licenses from the sha1's content.
 
     """
     task_queue = 'swh_indexer_content_fossology_license'
 
-    def run_task(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        ContentFossologyLicenseIndexer().run(*args, **kwargs)
+    Indexer = ContentFossologyLicenseIndexer
 
 
-class SWHRecomputeChecksumsTask(Task):
+class RecomputeChecksumsTask(Task):
     """Task which recomputes hashes and possibly new ones.
 
     """
     task_queue = 'swh_indexer_content_rehash'
 
-    def run_task(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        RecomputeChecksums().run(*args, **kwargs)
+    Indexer = RecomputeChecksums
diff --git a/swh/indexer/tests/__init__.py b/swh/indexer/tests/__init__.py
--- a/swh/indexer/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/tests/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-from os import path
 import swh.indexer
+import os
+from os import path
 
 from celery import shared_task
 from celery.contrib.testing.worker import _start_worker_thread
@@ -9,6 +10,13 @@
 
 SQL_DIR = path.join(path.dirname(swh.indexer.__file__), 'sql')
 
+os.environ['CELERY_BROKER_URL'] = 'memory://'
+os.environ['CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND'] = 'redis://localhost'
+os.environ['CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER'] = 'msgpack'
+current_app.conf.update(
+    task_serializer='msgpack',
+    )
+
 
 def start_worker_thread():
     return _start_worker_thread(current_app)
diff --git a/swh/indexer/tests/test_metadata.py b/swh/indexer/tests/test_metadata.py
--- a/swh/indexer/tests/test_metadata.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/tests/test_metadata.py
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
                 'context': 'npm'
             }
         }
+        MockIndexerStorage.added_data = []
 
     def test_compute_metadata_none(self):
         """
@@ -209,9 +210,9 @@
 
         # when
         metadata_indexer.run(sha1s, policy_update='ignore-dups')
-        results = metadata_indexer.idx_storage.state
+        results = metadata_indexer.idx_storage.added_data
 
-        expected_results = [{
+        expected_results = [('content_metadata', False, [{
             'indexer_configuration_id': 30,
             'translated_metadata': {
                 'other': {},
@@ -270,7 +271,7 @@
             'indexer_configuration_id': 30,
             'translated_metadata': None,
             'id': '02fb2c89e14f7fab46701478c83779c7beb7b069'
-        }]
+        }])]
 
         # The assertion below returns False sometimes because of nested lists
         self.assertEqual(expected_results, results)
@@ -318,9 +319,9 @@
         ]
         metadata_indexer.run(sha1_gits, 'update-dups')
 
-        results = metadata_indexer.idx_storage.state
+        results = metadata_indexer.idx_storage.added_data
 
-        expected_results = [{
+        expected_results = [('revision_metadata', True, [{
             'id': b'8dbb6aeb036e7fd80664eb8bfd1507881af1ba9f',
             'translated_metadata': {
                 'identifier': None,
@@ -354,6 +355,6 @@
                 'email': None
             },
             'indexer_configuration_id': 7
-        }]
+        }])]
         # then
         self.assertEqual(expected_results, results)
diff --git a/swh/indexer/tests/test_orchestrator.py b/swh/indexer/tests/test_orchestrator.py
--- a/swh/indexer/tests/test_orchestrator.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/tests/test_orchestrator.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 import unittest
 
+import celery
+
 from swh.indexer.orchestrator import BaseOrchestratorIndexer
 from swh.indexer.indexer import BaseIndexer
 from swh.indexer.tests.test_utils import MockIndexerStorage, MockStorage
@@ -12,8 +14,6 @@
 from swh.scheduler.tests.celery_testing import CeleryTestFixture
 
 from . import start_worker_thread
-
-
 class BaseTestIndexer(BaseIndexer):
     ADDITIONAL_CONFIG = {
             'tools': ('dict', {
@@ -70,26 +70,26 @@
         return super().filter([id_ for id_ in ids if '3' in id_])
 
 
-class Indexer1Task(Task):
-    def run(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        return Indexer1().run(*args, **kwargs)
+@celery.task
+def indexer1_task(*args, **kwargs):
+    return Indexer1().run(*args, **kwargs)
 
 
-class Indexer2Task(Task):
-    def run(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        return Indexer2().run(*args, **kwargs)
+@celery.task
+def indexer2_task(*args, **kwargs):
+    return Indexer2().run(*args, **kwargs)
 
 
-class Indexer3Task(Task):
-    def run(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        return Indexer3().run(*args, **kwargs)
+@celery.task
+def indexer3_task(self, *args, **kwargs):
+    return Indexer3().run(*args, **kwargs)
 
 
 class TestOrchestrator12(BaseOrchestratorIndexer):
     TASK_NAMES = {
-            'indexer1': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.Indexer1Task',
-            'indexer2': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.Indexer2Task',
-            'indexer3': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.Indexer3Task',
+            'indexer1': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.indexer1_task',
+            'indexer2': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.indexer2_task',
+            'indexer3': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.indexer3_task',
             }
 
     INDEXER_CLASSES = {
@@ -149,51 +149,51 @@
         o.prepare()
         o.run(['id12', 'id2'])
         self.assertCountEqual(o.running_tasks, [
-                  {'args': (),
-                   'chord_size': None,
-                   'immutable': False,
-                   'kwargs': {'ids': ['id12'],
-                              'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
-                   'options': {},
-                   'subtask_type': None,
-                   'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.Indexer1Task'},
-                  {'args': (),
-                   'chord_size': None,
-                   'immutable': False,
-                   'kwargs': {'ids': ['id12', 'id2'],
-                              'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
-                   'options': {},
-                   'subtask_type': None,
-                   'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.Indexer2Task'},
-                ])
+              {'args': (),
+               'chord_size': None,
+               'immutable': False,
+               'kwargs': {'ids': ['id12'],
+                          'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
+               'options': {},
+               'subtask_type': None,
+               'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.indexer1_task'},
+              {'args': (),
+               'chord_size': None,
+               'immutable': False,
+               'kwargs': {'ids': ['id12', 'id2'],
+                          'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
+               'options': {},
+               'subtask_type': None,
+               'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.indexer2_task'},
+            ])
 
     def test_mocked_orchestrator_batch(self):
         o = MockedTestOrchestrator12()
         o.prepare()
         o.run(['id12', 'id2a', 'id2b', 'id2c'])
         self.assertCountEqual(o.running_tasks, [
-                  {'args': (),
-                   'chord_size': None,
-                   'immutable': False,
-                   'kwargs': {'ids': ['id12'],
-                              'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
-                   'options': {},
-                   'subtask_type': None,
-                   'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.Indexer1Task'},
-                  {'args': (),
-                   'chord_size': None,
-                   'immutable': False,
-                   'kwargs': {'ids': ['id12', 'id2a'],
-                              'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
-                   'options': {},
-                   'subtask_type': None,
-                   'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.Indexer2Task'},
-                  {'args': (),
-                   'chord_size': None,
-                   'immutable': False,
-                   'kwargs': {'ids': ['id2b', 'id2c'],
-                              'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
-                   'options': {},
-                   'subtask_type': None,
-                   'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.Indexer2Task'},
-                ])
+              {'args': (),
+               'chord_size': None,
+               'immutable': False,
+               'kwargs': {'ids': ['id12'],
+                          'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
+               'options': {},
+               'subtask_type': None,
+               'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.indexer1_task'},
+              {'args': (),
+               'chord_size': None,
+               'immutable': False,
+               'kwargs': {'ids': ['id12', 'id2a'],
+                          'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
+               'options': {},
+               'subtask_type': None,
+               'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.indexer2_task'},
+              {'args': (),
+               'chord_size': None,
+               'immutable': False,
+               'kwargs': {'ids': ['id2b', 'id2c'],
+                          'policy_update': 'ignore-dups'},
+               'options': {},
+               'subtask_type': None,
+               'task': 'swh.indexer.tests.test_orchestrator.indexer2_task'},
+            ])
diff --git a/swh/indexer/tests/test_origin_head.py b/swh/indexer/tests/test_origin_head.py
--- a/swh/indexer/tests/test_origin_head.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/tests/test_origin_head.py
@@ -8,133 +8,17 @@
 from nose.tools import istest
 
 from swh.indexer.origin_head import OriginHeadIndexer
-from swh.indexer.tests.test_utils import MockIndexerStorage
-
-ORIGINS = [
-        {
-            'id': 52189575,
-            'lister': None,
-            'project': None,
-            'type': 'git',
-            'url': 'https://github.com/SoftwareHeritage/swh-storage'},
-        {
-            'id': 4423668,
-            'lister': None,
-            'project': None,
-            'type': 'ftp',
-            'url': 'rsync://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/3dldf'},
-        {
-            'id': 77775770,
-            'lister': None,
-            'project': None,
-            'type': 'deposit',
-            'url': 'https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/jesuisgpl/'},
-        {
-            'id': 85072327,
-            'lister': None,
-            'project': None,
-            'type': 'pypi',
-            'url': 'https://pypi.org/project/limnoria/'},
-        {
-            'id': 49908349,
-            'lister': None,
-            'project': None,
-            'type': 'svn',
-            'url': 'http://0-512-md.googlecode.com/svn/'},
-        ]
-
-SNAPSHOTS = {
-        52189575: {
-            'branches': {
-                b'refs/heads/add-revision-origin-cache': {
-                    'target': b'L[\xce\x1c\x88\x8eF\t\xf1"\x19\x1e\xfb\xc0'
-                              b's\xe7/\xe9l\x1e',
-                    'target_type': 'revision'},
-                b'HEAD': {
-                    'target': b'8K\x12\x00d\x03\xcc\xe4]bS\xe3\x8f{\xd7}'
-                              b'\xac\xefrm',
-                    'target_type': 'revision'},
-                b'refs/tags/v0.0.103': {
-                    'target': b'\xb6"Im{\xfdLb\xb0\x94N\xea\x96m\x13x\x88+'
-                              b'\x0f\xdd',
-                    'target_type': 'release'},
-                }},
-        4423668: {
-            'branches': {
-                b'3DLDF-1.1.4.tar.gz': {
-                    'target': b'dJ\xfb\x1c\x91\xf4\x82B%]6\xa2\x90|\xd3\xfc'
-                              b'"G\x99\x11',
-                    'target_type': 'revision'},
-                b'3DLDF-2.0.2.tar.gz': {
-                    'target': b'\xb6\x0e\xe7\x9e9\xac\xaa\x19\x9e='
-                              b'\xd1\xc5\x00\\\xc6\xfc\xe0\xa6\xb4V',
-                    'target_type': 'revision'},
-                b'3DLDF-2.0.3-examples.tar.gz': {
-                    'target': b'!H\x19\xc0\xee\x82-\x12F1\xbd\x97'
-                              b'\xfe\xadZ\x80\x80\xc1\x83\xff',
-                    'target_type': 'revision'},
-                b'3DLDF-2.0.3.tar.gz': {
-                    'target': b'\x8e\xa9\x8e/\xea}\x9feF\xf4\x9f\xfd\xee'
-                              b'\xcc\x1a\xb4`\x8c\x8by',
-                    'target_type': 'revision'},
-                b'3DLDF-2.0.tar.gz': {
-                    'target': b'F6*\xff(?\x19a\xef\xb6\xc2\x1fv$S\xe3G'
-                              b'\xd3\xd1m',
-                    b'target_type': 'revision'}
-                }},
-        77775770: {
-            'branches': {
-                b'master': {
-                    'target': b'\xe7n\xa4\x9c\x9f\xfb\xb7\xf76\x11\x08{'
-                              b'\xa6\xe9\x99\xb1\x9e]q\xeb',
-                    'target_type': 'revision'}
-            },
-            'id': b"h\xc0\xd2a\x04\xd4~'\x8d\xd6\xbe\x07\xeda\xfa\xfbV"
-                  b"\x1d\r "},
-        85072327: {
-            'branches': {
-                b'HEAD': {
-                    'target': b'releases/2018.09.09',
-                    'target_type': 'alias'},
-                b'releases/2018.09.01': {
-                    'target': b'<\xee1(\xe8\x8d_\xc1\xc9\xa6rT\xf1\x1d'
-                              b'\xbb\xdfF\xfdw\xcf',
-                    'target_type': 'revision'},
-                b'releases/2018.09.09': {
-                    'target': b'\x83\xb9\xb6\xc7\x05\xb1%\xd0\xfem\xd8k'
-                              b'A\x10\x9d\xc5\xfa2\xf8t',
-                    'target_type': 'revision'}},
-            'id': b'{\xda\x8e\x84\x7fX\xff\x92\x80^\x93V\x18\xa3\xfay'
-                  b'\x12\x9e\xd6\xb3'},
-        49908349: {
-                'branches': {
-                    b'master': {
-                        'target': b'\xe4?r\xe1,\x88\xab\xec\xe7\x9a\x87\xb8'
-                                  b'\xc9\xad#.\x1bw=\x18',
-                        'target_type': 'revision'}},
-                'id': b'\xa1\xa2\x8c\n\xb3\x87\xa8\xf9\xe0a\x8c\xb7'
-                      b'\x05\xea\xb8\x1f\xc4H\xf4s'},
-        }
-
-
-class MockStorage:
-    def origin_get(self, id_):
-        for origin in ORIGINS:
-            if origin['type'] == id_['type'] and origin['url'] == id_['url']:
-                return origin
-        assert False, id_
-
-    def snapshot_get_latest(self, origin_id):
-        if origin_id in SNAPSHOTS:
-            return SNAPSHOTS[origin_id]
-        else:
-            assert False, origin_id
+from swh.indexer.tests.test_utils import MockIndexerStorage, MockStorage
 
 
 class TestOriginHeadIndexer(OriginHeadIndexer):
     """Specific indexer whose configuration is enough to satisfy the
        indexing tests.
     """
+
+    revision_metadata_task = None
+    origin_intrinsic_metadata_task = None
+
     def prepare(self):
         self.config = {
             'tools': {
diff --git a/swh/indexer/tests/test_origin_metadata.py b/swh/indexer/tests/test_origin_metadata.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swh/indexer/tests/test_origin_metadata.py
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2018  The Software Heritage developers
+# See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
+# License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
+# See top-level LICENSE file for more information
+
+import logging
+import unittest
+from celery import task
+
+from swh.indexer.metadata import OriginMetadataIndexer
+from swh.indexer.tests.test_utils import MockObjStorage, MockStorage
+from swh.indexer.tests.test_utils import MockIndexerStorage
+from swh.indexer.tests.test_origin_head import TestOriginHeadIndexer
+from swh.indexer.tests.test_metadata import TestRevisionMetadataIndexer
+
+from . import start_worker_thread
+
+
+class TestOriginMetadataIndexer(OriginMetadataIndexer):
+    def prepare(self):
+        self.config = {
+            'storage': {
+                'cls': 'remote',
+                'args': {
+                    'url': 'http://localhost:9999',
+                }
+            },
+            'tools': {
+                'name': 'origin-metadata',
+                'version': '0.0.1',
+                'configuration': {}
+            }
+        }
+        self.storage = MockStorage()
+        self.idx_storage = MockIndexerStorage()
+        self.log = logging.getLogger('swh.indexer')
+        self.objstorage = MockObjStorage()
+        self.destination_task = None
+        self.tools = self.register_tools(self.config['tools'])
+        self.tool = self.tools[0]
+        self.results = []
+
+
+@task
+def test_revision_metadata_task(*args, **kwargs):
+    indexer = TestRevisionMetadataIndexer()
+    indexer.run(*args, **kwargs)
+    return indexer.results
+
+
+@task
+def test_origin_intrinsic_metadata_task(*args, **kwargs):
+    indexer = TestOriginMetadataIndexer()
+    indexer.run(*args, **kwargs)
+    return indexer.results
+
+
+class TestOriginHeadIndexer(TestOriginHeadIndexer):
+    revision_metadata_task = test_revision_metadata_task
+    origin_intrinsic_metadata_task = test_origin_intrinsic_metadata_task
+
+
+class TestOriginMetadata(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.maxDiff = None
+        MockIndexerStorage.added_data = []
+
+    def test_pipeline(self):
+        indexer = TestOriginHeadIndexer()
+        with start_worker_thread():
+            promise = indexer.run(
+                    ["git+https://github.com/librariesio/yarn-parser"],
+                    policy_update='update-dups',
+                    parse_ids=True)
+            promise.get()
+
+        metadata = {
+            'identifier': None,
+            'maintainer': None,
+            'url': [
+                'https://github.com/librariesio/yarn-parser#readme'
+            ],
+            'codeRepository': [{
+                'type': 'git',
+                'url': 'git+https://github.com/librariesio/yarn-parser.git'
+            }],
+            'author': ['Andrew Nesbitt'],
+            'license': ['AGPL-3.0'],
+            'version': ['1.0.0'],
+            'description': [
+                'Tiny web service for parsing yarn.lock files'
+            ],
+            'relatedLink': None,
+            'developmentStatus': None,
+            'operatingSystem': None,
+            'issueTracker': [{
+                'url': 'https://github.com/librariesio/yarn-parser/issues'
+            }],
+            'softwareRequirements': [{
+                'express': '^4.14.0',
+                'yarn': '^0.21.0',
+                'body-parser': '^1.15.2'
+            }],
+            'name': ['yarn-parser'],
+            'keywords': [['yarn', 'parse', 'lock', 'dependencies']],
+            'email': None
+        }
+        rev_metadata = {
+            'id': b'8dbb6aeb036e7fd80664eb8bfd1507881af1ba9f',
+            'translated_metadata': metadata,
+            'indexer_configuration_id': 7,
+        }
+        origin_metadata = {
+            'origin_id': 54974445,
+            'from_revision': b'8dbb6aeb036e7fd80664eb8bfd1507881af1ba9f',
+            'metadata': metadata,
+            'indexer_configuration_id': 7,
+        }
+        expected_results = [
+                ('origin_intrinsic_metadata', True, [origin_metadata]),
+                ('revision_metadata', True, [rev_metadata])]
+
+        results = list(indexer.idx_storage.added_data)
+        self.assertCountEqual(expected_results, results)
diff --git a/swh/indexer/tests/test_utils.py b/swh/indexer/tests/test_utils.py
--- a/swh/indexer/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -6,6 +6,123 @@
 
 from swh.objstorage.exc import ObjNotFoundError
 
+ORIGINS = [
+        {
+            'id': 52189575,
+            'lister': None,
+            'project': None,
+            'type': 'git',
+            'url': 'https://github.com/SoftwareHeritage/swh-storage'},
+        {
+            'id': 4423668,
+            'lister': None,
+            'project': None,
+            'type': 'ftp',
+            'url': 'rsync://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/3dldf'},
+        {
+            'id': 77775770,
+            'lister': None,
+            'project': None,
+            'type': 'deposit',
+            'url': 'https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/jesuisgpl/'},
+        {
+            'id': 85072327,
+            'lister': None,
+            'project': None,
+            'type': 'pypi',
+            'url': 'https://pypi.org/project/limnoria/'},
+        {
+            'id': 49908349,
+            'lister': None,
+            'project': None,
+            'type': 'svn',
+            'url': 'http://0-512-md.googlecode.com/svn/'},
+        {
+            'id': 54974445,
+            'lister': None,
+            'project': None,
+            'type': 'git',
+            'url': 'https://github.com/librariesio/yarn-parser'},
+        ]
+
+SNAPSHOTS = {
+        52189575: {
+            'branches': {
+                b'refs/heads/add-revision-origin-cache': {
+                    'target': b'L[\xce\x1c\x88\x8eF\t\xf1"\x19\x1e\xfb\xc0'
+                              b's\xe7/\xe9l\x1e',
+                    'target_type': 'revision'},
+                b'HEAD': {
+                    'target': b'8K\x12\x00d\x03\xcc\xe4]bS\xe3\x8f{\xd7}'
+                              b'\xac\xefrm',
+                    'target_type': 'revision'},
+                b'refs/tags/v0.0.103': {
+                    'target': b'\xb6"Im{\xfdLb\xb0\x94N\xea\x96m\x13x\x88+'
+                              b'\x0f\xdd',
+                    'target_type': 'release'},
+                }},
+        4423668: {
+            'branches': {
+                b'3DLDF-1.1.4.tar.gz': {
+                    'target': b'dJ\xfb\x1c\x91\xf4\x82B%]6\xa2\x90|\xd3\xfc'
+                              b'"G\x99\x11',
+                    'target_type': 'revision'},
+                b'3DLDF-2.0.2.tar.gz': {
+                    'target': b'\xb6\x0e\xe7\x9e9\xac\xaa\x19\x9e='
+                              b'\xd1\xc5\x00\\\xc6\xfc\xe0\xa6\xb4V',
+                    'target_type': 'revision'},
+                b'3DLDF-2.0.3-examples.tar.gz': {
+                    'target': b'!H\x19\xc0\xee\x82-\x12F1\xbd\x97'
+                              b'\xfe\xadZ\x80\x80\xc1\x83\xff',
+                    'target_type': 'revision'},
+                b'3DLDF-2.0.3.tar.gz': {
+                    'target': b'\x8e\xa9\x8e/\xea}\x9feF\xf4\x9f\xfd\xee'
+                              b'\xcc\x1a\xb4`\x8c\x8by',
+                    'target_type': 'revision'},
+                b'3DLDF-2.0.tar.gz': {
+                    'target': b'F6*\xff(?\x19a\xef\xb6\xc2\x1fv$S\xe3G'
+                              b'\xd3\xd1m',
+                    b'target_type': 'revision'}
+                }},
+        77775770: {
+            'branches': {
+                b'master': {
+                    'target': b'\xe7n\xa4\x9c\x9f\xfb\xb7\xf76\x11\x08{'
+                              b'\xa6\xe9\x99\xb1\x9e]q\xeb',
+                    'target_type': 'revision'}
+            },
+            'id': b"h\xc0\xd2a\x04\xd4~'\x8d\xd6\xbe\x07\xeda\xfa\xfbV"
+                  b"\x1d\r "},
+        85072327: {
+            'branches': {
+                b'HEAD': {
+                    'target': b'releases/2018.09.09',
+                    'target_type': 'alias'},
+                b'releases/2018.09.01': {
+                    'target': b'<\xee1(\xe8\x8d_\xc1\xc9\xa6rT\xf1\x1d'
+                              b'\xbb\xdfF\xfdw\xcf',
+                    'target_type': 'revision'},
+                b'releases/2018.09.09': {
+                    'target': b'\x83\xb9\xb6\xc7\x05\xb1%\xd0\xfem\xd8k'
+                              b'A\x10\x9d\xc5\xfa2\xf8t',
+                    'target_type': 'revision'}},
+            'id': b'{\xda\x8e\x84\x7fX\xff\x92\x80^\x93V\x18\xa3\xfay'
+                  b'\x12\x9e\xd6\xb3'},
+        49908349: {
+                'branches': {
+                    b'master': {
+                        'target': b'\xe4?r\xe1,\x88\xab\xec\xe7\x9a\x87\xb8'
+                                  b'\xc9\xad#.\x1bw=\x18',
+                        'target_type': 'revision'}},
+                'id': b'\xa1\xa2\x8c\n\xb3\x87\xa8\xf9\xe0a\x8c\xb7'
+                      b'\x05\xea\xb8\x1f\xc4H\xf4s'},
+        54974445: {
+                'branches': {
+                    b'HEAD': {
+                        'target': b'8dbb6aeb036e7fd80664eb8bfd1507881af1ba9f',
+                        'target_type': 'revision'}}}
+        }
+
 
 class MockObjStorage:
     """Mock an swh-objstorage objstorage with predefined contents.
@@ -120,6 +237,8 @@
     """Mock an swh-indexer storage.
 
     """
+    added_data = []
+
     def indexer_configuration_add(self, tools):
         tool = tools[0]
         if tool['tool_name'] == 'swh-metadata-translator':
@@ -156,12 +275,16 @@
         yield from []
 
     def content_metadata_add(self, metadata, conflict_update=None):
-        self.state = metadata
-        self.conflict_update = conflict_update
+        self.added_data.append(
+                ('content_metadata', conflict_update, metadata))
 
     def revision_metadata_add(self, metadata, conflict_update=None):
-        self.state = metadata
-        self.conflict_update = conflict_update
+        self.added_data.append(
+                ('revision_metadata', conflict_update, metadata))
+
+    def origin_intrinsic_metadata_add(self, metadata, conflict_update=None):
+        self.added_data.append(
+                ('origin_intrinsic_metadata', conflict_update, metadata))
 
     def content_metadata_get(self, sha1s):
         return [{
@@ -210,6 +333,23 @@
     outputs.
 
     """
+    def origin_get(self, id_):
+        for origin in ORIGINS:
+            for (k, v) in id_.items():
+                if origin[k] != v:
+                    break
+            else:
+                # This block is run iff we didn't break, ie. if all supplied
+                # parts of the id are set to the expected value.
+                return origin
+        assert False, id_
+
+    def snapshot_get_latest(self, origin_id):
+        if origin_id in SNAPSHOTS:
+            return SNAPSHOTS[origin_id]
+        else:
+            assert False, origin_id
+
     def revision_get(self, revisions):
         return [{
             'id': b'8dbb6aeb036e7fd80664eb8bfd1507881af1ba9f',