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Hi -

For those that have found keywording irregularities on their content transferred from SnapVillage - here's an update and some good news:

Our team has identified the problem - and this will be fixed by early next week. There is nothing you need to do - the files will be fixed automatically.

This issue only affects content transferred from SnapVillage. About 87,000 files were affected, and these files are being re-ingested and re-mapped to the Veer controlled vocabulary. These files had not yet made it live on the Phase 1 preview of Veer Marketplace.

Additionally - those that have seen blank thumbnails - we've just loaded an additional 50,000+ files, and most of those images should now display properly. We'll be loading more content throughout the week - so there may be a few files that haven't been picked up yet.

One note: this issue resulted in complete keyword / image mismatches - several have posted such examples on MSG.
Others have noticed their keywording is a bit different or an important term doesn't seem to appear --- the latter issue is more likely because you are now seeing the mapped Veer CV terms - which include walk-ups and many many synonyms, spelling variants and misspellings.

If you haven't already - you might find it helpful to read through the Keywording FAQ - which includes a bit more explanation about the Veer CV:
http://ideas.veer.com/group/marketplace/discussions/89



Thanks for your patience on this everyone.

- Brian

A problem a lot of us had was not with the importing, but with the way things were run on Snapvillage. They changed the keywords of most of our images, and in a very amateurish way. I wondered if they were native English speaker at all.
We would appreciate a chance to edit the keywords of the images that were imported, perhaps as a one off exercise?

We agree - you should be able to edit metadata on your own, after files are accepted. This is true for all content, no matter if it was transferred from SnapVillage or if it was newly uploaded.

We do plan on releasing tools to enable you to edit metadata after the fact.
While I don't have an exact ETA, this functionality is definitely planned for a future contributor release.

- Brian

That is good news. I hope it's not too long. 
Thanks Brian.