Permalink21 September 2007 at 11:56 by Alan Capel
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Following our strategy to enhance the search experience for customers by improving annotation (outlined in James West’s article, Keywording for the future), we are delighted to announce the release of annotation tools.
With your help, we hope these tools will:
- Improve the relevancy of search results to help customers find images faster.
- Provide more comprehensive information about each image.
- Build a more compelling collection of images for the commercial market.
New features of this release are:
- A new approach to keywording. Working with a knowledge of AlamyRank you can give greater weighting to certain keywords so the most relevant can influence where your images appear in search results.
- Indicating the number of people in an image or property which needs a release.
- Provision for the date and location a photograph was taken.
- Showing whether an image is a cut-out, digitally altered, or an illustration.
- More intuitive interface which will guide you through the annotation process.
- A character count on the keyword fields.
What’s next?
- You will need to complete all the annotation fields for any new images to go on sale.
- Your existing images on sale will not be affected. Only if you change any details about an image will you need to complete the new fields.
- The new weightings will not be reflected in the search engine until the changeover is complete. This may take a week or so.
For more help with annotation please see our improved information under Manage images in the contributor section or visit the forum.
We hope you’ll agree that this is an exciting development and the investment of your time will be worthwhile. It marks the next step in a series of initiatives designed to give you more tools to influence the performance and sales potential of your images.
Coming soon to complement these new screens will be AlamyMeasures, which will provide you with detailed data regarding the activity of your images on the site. Keep an eye on the Blog for further announcements.
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