autopopulate metadata

[kkiel]

Hi everybody,

I would suggest the following feature that cannot be done with the Thesaurus or Metadata templates at the moment:

If you often have to add metadata to pictures with similar content it would be great to have a function that does the following:
You click on a newly added picture, go to the headline metadata field, type 'dolph' (or whatsoever), and the programm suggests 'dolphin' very fast. You accept the suggestion and the programm autopopulates some metadata fields (which ones you would have defined before) from your other dolphin pictures. So the program in this example could add the keywords 'mammal', 'ocean' and 'blue', and the description 'Jumping dolphins in the ocean against blue sky' from the most recently added image. You could accept the suggestions  or not, or accept and delete the words you don't want in this case manually.

Say, you have 20 slightly different headlines starting with 'dolph': 'Dolphin jumping', 'Dolphins jumping', 'Dolphin and baby dolphin jumping' etc. The feature would show you (like google suggest) while typing several dolphin headlines that are already in your database. You could chose one manually from a special image (now a 'metadata template image'), adapt it, if necessary, and the system populates some other metadata fields from the metadata you used in the 'metadata template image'.

This would accelerate at least my metadata addition workflow by about 80 percent, I think.

I think one of the microstock agencies has a similar feature, but can't remember which one.

Regards,

kkiel