Metadata
Information about a specific file. Common metadata include a file’s size and date of creation. In Elvis, metadata can include photo credits and notes about usage rights.
Uploading art with metadata
Art that you upload to Elvis will become permanently available to us, so it's very important to take a moment and add some additional information about it.
Specifically, please be sure to fill out the credit field and any restrictions on copyright and usage. If the photo depicts anything with a proper noun (person, place, specific hotel/restaurant, etc.), please enter those proper nouns into the description box.
An example: Let's say you upload a picture of Chef Sam Smith standing next to the sign for Smith's Restaurant in Houston, taken by John Jones, who granted us the right to use it once. You input the following:
- Credit: John Jones
- Copyright/usage: single-use rights granted 6/12/16 for Chefs on the Move
- Description: Sam Smith, Smith's Restaurant, Houston, Texas
- Photographer/PR contact: John@JonesPhoto.com
Five years later, Smith's Restaurant wins a Michelin star. You do a search in Elvis and thanks to your detailed description, you find the file. You note that John Jones only gave us permission to use it once, so you shoot him an email and get permission to use it again. The system automatically includes the photo credit. You're done.
Because you took a minute to enter all that metadata when you started, you just saved yourself:
- a search through your email (and really, would you still have that email five years later?)
- the time and effort of uploading the image again
- a nasty email from the chef, because what you actually found was Smith's Restaurant in Arkansas, which he left on bad terms
- a nasty email from the photographer, because you a. forgot the credit and b. violated the usage terms
