Automatic Tagging brings the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to Cumulus. With this optional Cumulus feature, external image recognition services can be configured to analyze your assets. As a result, the services provide a number of tags denoting the contents of the images. These tags will be added to the metadata of the assets – that is, written into the catalog fields that have been specified for this purpose. The tags can be used e.g. as keywords (as categories under the $Keywords tab), or as descriptions, or captions, etc. Enriching your assets with automatically generated tags makes exploiting your stock more effective and ensures that you find the proper assets for any purpose more easy and in even less time.
The Automatic Tagging feature can be evoked manually via a menu command, or via a dedicated Scheduler task.
PRECONDITIONS: Automatic Tagging is an optional Cumulus feature. A license must be purchased, and activated via the Remote Admin module of the Cumulus (Web) Server Console. Additionally, a valid account with one of the supported Automatic Tagging providers must exist.
For details on how to set up Automatic Tagging support in Cumulus and the prerequisites that must be met, see Automatic Tagging Setup.
Manually starting the Automatic Tagging
To manually start the Automatic Tagging:
1. Select the records of the asset you want to tag automatically.
2. Select Metadata > Run Automatic Tagging. A confirmation dialog is displayed. Click Yes to continue.
The Automatic Tagging process may take some time. When it is finished, the tags for each of the selected assets are written into the field(s) that are configured to contain them.
Using the Scheduler to start the Automatic Tagging
If you want to start the Automatic Tagging feature on a regular schedule with the Cumulus Scheduler, an appropriate Scheduler task must be configured (see Scheduler Task).
The Cumulus Scheduler reads the content of a specific catalog field, Automatic Tagging Request. If the value of this field is Analyze, the Scheduler evokes the Automatic Tagging process. When this process is finished, the value of the Automatic Tagging Request field is changed to Review, thus indicating that it might be wise to review the results received from the Automatic Tagging service.
To use the Scheduler for Automatic Tagging assets the assets must be prepared
1. Make sure to set the value of the Automatic Tagging Request field to Analyze, for all assets you want to automatically tag. This can be done by directly editing the assets’ metadata as well as by applying a Metadata Template, either while cataloging assets, or anytime later (see Using a Metadata Template).
Automatic Tagging Log
Messages from the Automatic Tagging server (if any) are written into the Automatic Tagging Log catalog field for each asset that has been selected for Automatic Tagging. Which messages are written into this field depends on the Log Level configured via the Automatic Tagging module of the Web Server Console. Whether the Automatic Tagging Log is visible to you depends on the configuration of the used Record View Set.