MicrostockGroup

Why all types of licenses on my sales  are "Extended "...

I have "Standard" License Type only. Last sale on 6/30/2010   

It's still planned - but we don't have a current ETA.

A bit of background on the shift: As you know - creating JPEGs from .EPS vectors is not always a straightforward process - there are many variables that can effect output quality. Earlier this year we ran into challenges creating automated JPEGs in all resolutions that we felt would be trouble-free and look good in the vast majority of cases. We decided against implementing any solution that we felt could lead to variable JPEG quality and possible customer dissatisfaction.  Now that we've got the new Veer site up we can take another look at this - much of the background work and development has been completed.

Yes they will count.Original submission date will count.
But please ensure "needs work" items are resubmitted in a timely manner (no more than 2 weeks from date of edit).

Thanks for spotting this. This was indeed a bug in the stats display that has now been corrected.

so you mean the keywords that shows at image profile under 'your member page' is not important? and is not the only keywords that is searchable? but i go a rice terraces photo, i had put 'rice terrace' and 'rice terraces' both as keywords but it is not showing in the image profile in 'your member page', and it is not able to get found by searching rice terraces... something isn't right.
 

The disconnect and source of confusion is between submitted keywords (what was entered during upload or extracted from IPTC), versus what we call "search terms" - or terms from our CV (controlled vocabulary).

The upload interface and the approved tab show the submitted keywords. The image details page displays the search terms
The site stores the submitted keywords in the system, but only search terms from our CV are actually, well... searchable.

While it causes confusing cases like this, in most instances the mapping process from submitted keywords to search terms really helps to improve search relevancy.

We'll take a closer look at clarifying the display on the upload process and approved tab, as well as options to fix existing keyword/search-term issues.


- Brian

Hi hofhoek -

Our CV includes quite extensive hierarchical walk-ups and relationships between terms. In this case - "orthodontics" and "orthodontists" are both on your image.

So even though the term "dentist" is not on your image, it is still searchable.

The CV displays the narrowest, most-specific search term. There is usually tens, if not hundreds, of other terms made searchable by the hierarchy walk-ups and lead-ins built into the CV. This makes keywording easier and much more reliable. You only need to focus on getting the most specific literal and conceptual terms on the image. The CV handles the rest.

Easier to walk through this as an example:
On this image:  http://marketplace.veer.com/images/2072727
   - This contains "orthodontists", of which "dentists" is a broader term. The singular "orthodontist" is automatically included.
   - It also contains "orthdonotics", of which "dentristry" is a broader term. "orthodoncy", "orthodontia", and "orthodontic" are then included as well.

Nothing is wrong in this case. The CV doing it's job correctly. This image is searchable under any of the terms above - including "dentist".

Hope that helps. CV's and their structures can be complicated and not always easy to explain - we can help if you have questions on specific images Please email us at [email protected] for best results.


- Brian

@ Brian: Thanks for the clearing up. I will check my images and come back to you if I don't understand.  Patricia

so any reason why my keywords are not shown as the controllable vocabulary?

let's us know what we didn't do it right to make the keywords being part of the searchable controlled vocabulary.. educate us, it is a win-win situation for agency and contributor. I would like to be able to edit my keywords too, i think majority of people is edited for correct keywords instead of spamming with keywords.

Before I made this post I did contact contributor help, and got a "canned" response. ( Sorry, i couldn't help it.)
I still think all this CV stuff is getting a little too restrictive. I can see where some things can be open to interpretation, but if I have to second guess the CV on something as simple as paint cans, I'm not sure it's worth the trouble for the minimal sales so far. Or maybe i just should have just called them cans paint in the first place.

You can't since it has been mentioned here that you can't re-edit your keywords after they have been swallowed in by the system. That makes it so frustrating.