Glossary

  • Keyword, Tag
    A keyword or tag identifies your image. An image can have several keywords
  • Keyword Provider
    A company that speziales on keywording images.
    The most important companies are Google (with Google Vision) and Microsoft (with Microsoft Vision)
  • Third party Keyword Providers
    There are companies like MyKeyworder.Com that wrap services from other companies (Google, Flickr) and offer Keywording as a service
  • Batch program
    A batch progam offers a service for repeating services in one process: for instance TAGGER.biz offers a service for reading all image-data from a directory, tagging all images and writing all images in an output directory
  • Image Formats
    Most Keyword providers work only with the JPG Format.
    RAW Format: each camera-manufacturer has its own image format (Nikon, Canon, Fuji, Hasselblad, Leica, Panasonic, Sony, Olympus and so on)
    DNG Format: general Raw format invented by Adobe