Interest either way?

Would this be a system similar to DT with a smiliar price?

You will simply add a process to each image (or selection of several images) you want keyworded, specifying the number of keywords you desire and the keyworders will keyword them before your files are uploaded by the picWorkflow system.

I'm looking to provide it cheaper than any other keywording service, although precisely how much it will cost is yet to be decided and is to be determined by finding the mid-point between what photographers are willing to pay, and what keyworders are interested in accepting as payment. Please let me know, whichever camp you are in, how much that that will be

The current design is for payment to be in picWorkflow regular paid credits so the credits can be transferred out to paypal once the limit is reached.

There is a rating system of a sort, though there isn't much room to be paid more (picWorkflow will only keep 10% to start with so not a lot to give up after that). But I will be tracking keyworder performance and futher activites for more earnings will only be available to the best keyworders: captioning, review tasks and perhaps things like categorisation and keyword disambiguation will follow.

The cost will be lowered by making the interface for the keyworder as effective as possible for keywording many images at once. There will not be a critically high quality bar, but again, the best keyworders (every keywording task may be rated for quality by the purchasers) so a certain level of quality will be built into the system and moreso over time.

Just from my own tests here on the first-stage keywording platform, it's perfectly feasible for a keyworder to earn between $6-$12 per hour depending on the final payment structure, the keyworders proficiency and the level of demand for the service (corresponding to a cost to the keyword-purchaser of somewhere between 0.4-0.8 cents per keyword).

I'd keyword for 10$ an hour, for sure.

depends on you I guess:)

depends on you I guess:)

that's true

I haven't read properly, Bob wants to pay per picture, honestly I would join this once a little more income would be nice, I would do 1h per day easily

The keyworder will se only a small preview? Or you will add a good watermark?

The keyworders will see A thumbnail with very thorough watermark on mouseover.
You can see the watermarked version which will be shown by clicking on the micro-thumb for any of your files in the process page.

Have a look at mturk.com and cloudcrowd. You need a very good workflow, otherwise it will take to long to access the jobs, and this will be a big time thief. Cloudcrowd has a good workflow, where accessing and completing tasks require few clicks. Mturk is more convoluted, and often the process of accessing a task takes more time than finishing it.
Googles image labeler is quick and fun to use.

One big time saver for the keyworder would be if you could add keywords to a lot of pics at once. E.g. see 20-30 thumbs at once and label them easily with "person, people, female" etc. Entering keywords for single images will take too much time. That is your big advantage if you get a lot of people to use this feature: you will have access to a lot of pictures and the work flow can be very effective.

The picWorkflow keywording service is now active, I've tried to incorporate a lot of the suggestions and comments from you guys and gals (thank you very much , and I've added a pricing system which rewards quality keywording and makes it possible to earn more for better performance.

Info here:

http://blog.picniche.com/featured/stock-photo-keywording-in-just-3-clicks-with-picworkflow/

I'll also be adding other services soon, and there is something of a 'promotion' tree for people who want to be operators, and of course more options for photographers who want to cut down the time and effort taken to process images before they can get up and for sale

What do you think?

They have to be uploaded to picWorkflow, but you do not need to pay to store them, they are stored by default for free for 7 days and all tasks purchasing keywording also get an extra 2 days free storage.

The only other charge is for the subsequent distribution, but as soon as I know what point I can afford to put it at, I will reedem a proportion of the amount spent on keywording into free distribution credits.

If you also don't want to pay for distribution afterwards, you can export the metadata as csv/tsv to import to your own library.

Simply because microstock agencies make it impossible to do that: partly because they require images be keyworded before submission, but also because they are currently completely unwilling to collaborate with anyone who also make it easier for "their" contributors to submit anywhere else.

The addition of the meta-tagger to the picNiche toolbar (soon) will however make it feasible to audit or enhance your keywords for previously submitted images by using the picWorkflow service.

Thanks, I hope it's useful to you

If you have any requests, suggestions or questions, please let me know