Permalink6 July 2007 at 11:24 by Pippa Greig
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© Liz Boyd AlamyUpload testing is finished! We’ve tested the system with a group of over 500 Alamy Contributors and are happy with the way the it is working. Many thanks to all of you who helped us with the testing and in particular to those of you who took the time to complete our questionnaire. Your feedback was very useful to us and helped us to fix a few minor problems. We’re now confident that AlamyUpload works for systems outlined in our technical spec.
We will now begin rolling out AlamyUpload to all contributors and this roll-out will take a few months. Our roll out strategy is designed to be fair and to ensure we get a good variety of contributors, based on location, submission behaviour and other criteria.
We ask that you be patient as we will not be enabling AlamyUpload on request.
AlamyUpload will be enabled on all contributors’ accounts as quickly as possible whilst at the same time ensuring that we are able to cope with large numbers of online submissions. If the system continues to cope well with incoming images, we will add more and more users. You’ll get an e-mail from us as soon as you are able to use AlamyUpload.
You may like to discuss your experiences of AlamyUpload on our Contributor forum.
In response to the feedback we’ve received, we’d like to clarify a few points:
- The time taken to upload images will depend on the speed of your connection, and may also depend on your location.
- If you have problems with your internet connection it is possible that your upload may terminate before all images have been uploaded. You will then have to click “retry” to continue with the upload.
- If you click on a hyperlink on the upload page whilst uploading, your upload will terminate. You can however open up a new browser window or use other applications on your machine.
- You can upload multiple images in each upload session and each session will be given a unique media reference.
- After uploading your images, their status will be shown as “Processing” in "Track Submissions" within My Alamy. They will then enter the queue for QC. The time taken from images being uploaded to being assessed by QC can be up to 25 working days.
- We will continue to treat all images which reach QC at the same time as one submission, so all media Awaiting QC will be assessed together.
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