Is Metadata Lost If a Mac is Reimaged?

I have a handful of artists who, unknown to me, were tagging art files (EPS, TIFF, JPG, etc.) in Bridge, adding keywords to a large collection of art for reference later, with all of the artists seeing tags that others had added to art files.
A few months ago, we wiped the drives and upgraded all of these computers to Mavericks and CS6 as clean installs, retaining none of the original data on the individual Macs. My artists are worried that this work is lost now (just the tags).
My question is whether or not this metadata lives with the files (which were on a network server), or whether this data was stored on the local drive, lost forever.

Depends on whether the preferences had been set to keep metadata in central cache or exported to folders whenever possible.
Bridge is not that robust when working across a network.

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