Stock Photography Keywording Made Easy

This week I will check out how PanoramaStock handles keywords during search to help contributors improve their stock photography keywording to maximize sales. Continue reading →

Come hear our CEO and President, Jody Apap speak with Todd Carter of Tagasauris about the current state of technology in image and video keywording.  This great event is being held by the NYC chapter of the ASPP.

Jody and Todd will each describe the methods and technologies they have used to create their current state of the art keywording tools and services.

KeywordSmart uses a traditional approach: Log into their site, follow their interactivekeywording checklist to create a comprehensive set of keywords, and the KeywordSmart back-end system uses a 130,000 word vocabulary to automatically generate synonyms, plurals, variant spellings, alternate punctuations, categorical terms as well as verb forms.

Tagasauris has created a software-as-a-service platform for crowd-sourcing data curation and metadata. By dividing the keywording process into small micro-tasks, their system combines computer algorithms with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and micro-payments to leverage a world-wide community of image taggers and judges who verify the metadata.

Come and taste-test two very different methods of dealing with the cumbersome task of adding keywords to images and videos.  There will be time for a Q&A period, and plenty of networking after the presentations.

Click Here to find out more and sign up at the ASPP website.

We look forward to seeing you there.

June 19th, 6:30 pm
Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center
281 Park Avenue South (corner of 22nd St)
New York City