? for Studio Photogs about metadata

[movingex]

OK here's the deal. Hopefully this is the correct forum for this question.

In my day job I am a Digital Assets Manager for a very large cosmetics company. My job is to keep track of all company images and artwork. This means getting images into our DAM (digital asset management) system with keywords and usage information and such.

I am in the process of trying to sreamline our workflow with outside photographers, we don't have inhouse photography.

I am thinking about asking photographers to start putting certain information about the shoot in PS metada fields. The information would be like model name, product name, usage info and such.

I'm just wondering if this is common practice these days or would I be breaking new ground here. Would this be benificial to the Studio or just additional work?

Any knowlegeable info from studio photographers appreciated.

[ndsimm]

given the fields that are available in most programs that edit metadata, that doesn't seem like an inreasonable request. I palce my own personal info in the metadata of each image and Adobe Bridge allows for batch editing of metadata.
of course, you will always have those that will want to charge extra for the "service"

[PeteQ]

I don't think this should be too much of an issue. I have been trying to be better about putting keyword and shoot information in ALL my images, but I usually do it for any client deliverables. If I knew what the client wanted in there I don't see how that would hurt. Most times the clients don't ask (or even know) so it's never been an issue. I guess it depends on what fields, etc you would want to populate and if your photogs already use them.