User Guide

Key Concepts and Terms
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Keywords
Keywords are terms you choose that describe one or more
source files in a collection. They may describe the literal
content of a file (such as objects in a photo, or events in a
video clip) or its subjective aspects (for example, adjectives
like beautiful or intense).
Keywords are powerful search tools. If you add keywords
extensively across a collection, you'll be able to find almost
unlimited combinations of records instantly based on
keyword searches.
ImageAXS Professional lets you organize keywords into
hierarchies (or families) so that one keyword may contain
several related keywords. For example, the keyword
“United States” might have child keywords for each of the
50 states; attaching a keyword for one of the states (such as
“California”) to a data record would attach the “United
States” keyword as well.
Views
Views are different ways to display information about a
collection and its records. ImageAXS offers four views. Two
of these views let you see all of the records in a collection:
• The Thumbnails View displays thumbnail images for
each record in a collection.
• The Text List View displays the text field data (in a row-
and-column table format) for each record in a collection.
The other two views let you see information about
individual records that you select:
• The Info Sheet View displays the thumbnail, text data,
and keywords associated with a source file.
• The Source File View displays image or 3D files, or
plays movie, sound, or animated GIF files.