Now that you have had the chance to view
the media in detail, you are now ready to add metadata. Adding
metadata is very important. What you add at this stage will
be essential for finding the image/video again when it is added
to a database, or if it is compiled as part of a report.
On the right hand side you will see a number
of fields which need to be filled in.
The Originators Ref is required when you
first start RECLAIM - this is then automatically 'tagged'
to each piece of media you review.
Choose a classification from the drop down
menu.
If your image/video clip doesn’t quite
fit in with one of the Classification terms or if the image
needs further information regarding classification, add it
in the Caveat text box.
Digital images/video clips are usually date
and time stamped by the digital Camera at the point when they
are taken. If that is true of your images, the Capture Date
and Local Time of Capture fields will both be retrieved from
the image automatically and placed in these fields for you.
If that data was not available in the image, then enter this
manually.
For Capture Location (GPS), if the data
is available within the image then it will be loaded automatically
onto the screen. If the data is not automatically found, please
enter a Latitude and Longitude position for the location where
the image was taken. Note: video does not contain GPS information.
For Target Location, certain camera systems
will be able to embed the image with information relating
to the height and distance of the target image. If your camera
is capable of this then the data will automatically be loaded
for you. Note: video does not contain Target information.
Please enter as much useful descriptive analysis as possible.
As a minimum, enter Details relating to which Country the
image was taken in, the city or town, the event that was taking
place and what is the subject being taken. Eg: UK, Farnborough,
Airshow, SU50 flying display.
We have included a number of tools to make the job of entering
metadata as easy as possible. If after you have entered a
set of metadata which you think will mostly apply to all the
images/clips, you can press the ‘Set defaults’
button. This means that whenever you choose to view another
image/clip, the metadata you’ve just entered will be
automatically loaded again. You can of course still change
any of the metadata.
Also included to make the process
easier is the Copy last description button. As you would expect,
this copies the last description you entered into the description
field for the currently loaded image/video clip.
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