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Keywording 1 July 2010

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One day training course for stills and moving footage collections
Sales of images depend critically on the keywords that accompany them. This course is for people with image collections who want consistent keywording informed by industry standards and current search trends.
The course will look at keywording schemas, the principles of controlled vocabulary and thesauri, and methods of captioning and keywording. We will look at ways to do productive keywording to suit your business needs and budget.

Topics

• Keywording schemas
• Vocabularies and thesauri
• Keywording in practice
• Caption writing
• Hints, tips, rules
• Productivity and software
• Keywording moving footage
   

Date: 1 July 2010
Trainer: Liisa Kakinnen
Duration: One day
Cost: £300 +VAT (£275  BAPLA members)
Venue: Farringdon, London EC1 Time: 9.30 – 5.00
Maximum no.: 12
Type of course: SEMINAR with practical exercises
Suitable for: Image library managers, keywording staff, photographers.
Experience required: None

TRAINER
Liisa Kaakinen is a keywording specialist based in London. She manages keywording for Amana images distributed in the West. She manages and develops the English Thesaurus, organises outsourcing, and keywords images for Getty, Corbis, Jupiter and others. She worked as a keyworder for Photonica, and was Head of Metadata at Amana Productions prior to going freelance in 2007. Liisa also works as a consultant for specialist libraries, developing keywording vocabularies, and advising on workflow issues. She is currently keywording clips for a footage library.