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MAY 2003 |
ISSUE NO.3
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Opus Solutions (UK) Ltd |
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Website:
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OPUS @ CEPIC |
SPECIAL CEPIC CONGRESS
EDITION
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Members of the Opus team will be at the Cepic Congress and are available to give demonstrations of our software along with company information. Visit us at our
stand or come to our SEMINAR Saturday 31 May 2.00- 5.00pm Blue Room Teatro da Trindade If you would
like to find out more about Opus please call to arrange a demonstration
either at your site, or remotely via the internet. Contact
Elenor 0114 249 6801 e-mail
elenor@opusuk.com |
If you get a chance to
get out and about around Lisbon, here are a couple of tips to help you on
your way.
Lisboa Card
A great
pass which gets you free or discounted entry into lots of attractions, as
well as free public transport around town.
The Card
only costs 11.25 euros for 24 hours, 18.50 euros for 48 hours and 23.50 euros
for 72 hours.
Buy it at Turismo, Palácio Foz, Praça dos Restauradores
(351 21 346 6307); Lisboa Welcome Center, Rua do Arsenal 15 (351 21 031
2800); and some museums |
Internet Access
If you
require internet access, the best places, and cheapest are the National
telecom company Portugal Telecom (PT) public spaces. They have lots of
computers, complete with outgoing email and print facilities. They are
situated at the following locations;
One is
at its Forum Picoas headquarters, another on Rossio square (Praça Dom Pedro
V), and the other in the Colombo shopping centre.
PT: shop
C.512, Centro Colombo (351 21 716 8408), 10am-midnight daily, metro Campo
Militar. Shop C.05, Centro Comercial Picoas Plaza, Rua Viriato (251 21 316
0257), 8am-10pm daily, metro Picoas. Praça D. Pedro IV, 68, 8am-11pm daily,
metro Rossio.
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And finally to ensure
that no-one goes thirsty, a few words you may need, not in order of
importance!
Wine = Vinho
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TECHNOLOGY
How much do we need? |
How imageflow has improved our workflow
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One of the questions for discussion at this years conference is how
much technology is needed by your clients. The reason
to introduce any new technology into your organisation is to improve your
procedures and the service you provide. Not all
technology is useful to all picture libraries. Do not be drawn into using
technology, which will not improve your workflow, just because it is offered
by your competitors. Before
receiving an investment proposal from Opus, the team will enter into an
in-depth investigation of your organisation and its particular needs. The
solution that we offer is configured according to your individual
requirements. |
Imageflow is dramatically changing our workflow at Peter Arnold, Inc.
Our
scans of archived images are processed effortlessly in its image transfer,
making high-res delivery files, previews and thumbnails quickly. So
quickly that we often use this process for sending custom I can be
searching scanned images while I talk with a client on the phone, making a
selection and telling them what we have, adding a new scan, then creating a
lightbox delivered shortly after the conversation. |
The
settings for each image size are fully customizable, and the size sent to the
client easily adjustable. We can also apply individual rights control, should
that be necessary. Imageflow
simplifies both analog and digital archiving. It can read data from the IPTC
header into the image record letting photographers contribute directly to our
workflow. Their
data entry ensures caption accuracy saving work for us. And Imageflow's analog
cataloging lets us enter records for similars together. To
further simplify cataloging they developed a handy templating system. Stored
information, including caption, keyword, photographer etc. can be retrieved
and applied to a new record. Now there's no need to archive similar images
together. |
Progressive
templating also lets us build upon previous templates to develop increasingly
detailed and accurate keywording. For
example, keywords for a giraffe at a watering hole are applied to a retrieved
template for keywords common to all giraffes, which has been made from one
for all African mammals, built from the basic mammal’s template. Comprehensive keywording has never
been easy. Imageflow makes it as consistent, reliable, and painless as possible.
Dexter Lane Peter Arnold,
Inc. New York |
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Designed by
Professional Programmers for Professional Picture Libraries
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IMAGE
QUALITY
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KEYWORDS
– DON’T LOCK IMAGES AWAY
CATALOGUING THE
KEY TO IMAGE SALES IS EASY ACCESSABILITY |
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Maintaining
the quality of your images is vital to the client perception of your
resource. Whilst this was once the domain of your
photographers and picture editors, the burden is now also shared with your
technical staff as increasing numbers of images are scanned, manipulated and
stored. As the
debate into the best ways to maintain the quality of your digital files we
have created our software to support a variety of file formats and in
addition allow the user to specify the sizes at which the images are saved to
create the four stored images. Learn more at the CEPIC seminar on Quality in Digital
Files at the Auditorium of the Teatro da Trindade, Largo da Trindade, Saturday
31 May, 10.00 to 12.30 |
Whether you are an internal picture researcher fulfilling a request
for a client, or a client searching for images on the internet, your search
results will only be as good as the keywords will allow. Such is the importance of the keyword, CEPIC are
devoting a seminar to the subject at this years congress. Attic Room of
the Teatro da Trindade, Largo da Trindade, Saturday 31 May, from 14.30 to
16.00. The
right Image Management Solution should be your greatest cataloguing asset. It
should increase the consistency and accuracy of the image information and
have a comprehensive search engine to assimilate the data efficiently. An
effective system will not only assist the user to enter images more quickly
by reducing the repetitive aspects of the process. At
Opus we have over the years discussed many times with our clients the best
ways to ensure that the right keywords are applied to each image. |
To
this end we have built into our software comprehensive cataloguing structures,
which we believe lead the user through this vital area without encumbering
them with needless restrictions. Within the image
cataloguing system the user is able to set-up several tiers of image
information which can be used to find images in addition to keywords. On
the first level is the CATEGORY which provides a broad heading. The
next level is the SUBJECT which creates the sub-divisions of the
Category. The Subject has four levels within it, which allow the user to
created unlimited subdivisions of the Category. The
keywords are taken not only from the caption information, but can also be
added either manually or selected from a predefined list. Additional
Categories, Subjects and Keywords can be added to the lists simply by the user.
The use of built-in lists helps eliminate the problems caused by
typographical errors and creates a
more uniform cataloguing method. |
The Imageflow cataloguing
system also helps speed up the process of image entry by allowing data to be
carried forward from one image to the next and facilitating batch entry. Effective
cataloguing is only one half of the equation, the search engine within any
given solution has to live up to potential of the image information
available. Both
imageflow and i-netcat have comprehensive search facilities, which allow the
user to search by individual fields or a combination of different fields such
as category, subject, keywords, photographer, shoot reference, or barcode
number. If you are looking for
a new Image Management Solution ensure that it will provide the key
to effective
cataloguing. |
PRODUCT FOCUS : the integration
between imageflow and i-netcat
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Making
full use of the integration between i-netcat and imageflow will create an extremely
powerful e-commerce tool. Projected
to be worth £2.4 billion by the end of 2003*, global e-commerce is a quick,
effective method of serving existing clients as well as reaching new
customers. (*NUA
Internet Surveys) From the moment
you receive a digital image to the production of an invoice, imageflow and
i-netcat integrate to create an efficient and effective workflow. Streamlined cataloguing Digitised
images can be imported into imageflow retaining the IPTC header information
produced by the photographer. Automated upload Once the
images are catalogued, they can then be automatically uploaded to your
website, using |
When an
image record is updated, it is automatically uploaded to All
images will have their metadata embedded in them using IPTC standard. In
similar fashion pictures could be removed from the site in real-time. Lightboxes The user
can create Lightboxes, which store their selections of images that could then
be sent to other people, who could then view the images and if required add
them to their own Lightboxes or order them from the library. On-line rights When a
client decides to want to use a picture, she could simply click on a button
to clear rights on line. This
facility checks the rights available for the picture(s) based on the information
supplied by the client. This could be anything from usage to territorial
rights or even specific customer restrictions. |
On-line Pricing Once the
client has cleared rights for the images that they wish to use, the system
can give them the pricing for each of the images selected. The
pricing shown will be determined by the client login id, as i-netcat allows
either standard or specific pricelists for individual clients. In other
words, you could have a set up whereby different groups of clients can have
different pricing based on the category of clients. The
pricing at its simplest level is determined by Usage, Circulation/Print Run
and Size. The pricelists are shared by both Imageflow and i-netcat, but are
maintained in imageflow. Image download After
confirming their wish proceed with the purchase of the images, the client
could then download the high resolution images as a single file (provided
that the client has been cleared and given access rights to download images).
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The
client could either pay for these images on-line or on account depending on
their credit status. Automatic order creation All
rights are updated in imageflow in real-time as soon as the purchase is
confirmed. The
download information is used to automatically create an order in imageflow,
the back-office system. This will
include the charging of download fees where applicable. An order
will be created in imageflow for which the library can confirm the price,
then a usage fee invoice will be automatically generated. This integration between the back-office system and web front
end not only reduces admin activities for the library, but also improves the
speed at which new images become available to the client. |
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