The Image Metabase™ is a web-based tool for indexing, tagging, and organizing images across multiple web sites. The metabase will index and thumbnail images from other sites, and then anyone with an account in the metabase can then add metatags to those images. These tags can be linked to one-another, and searched as well.

Q: Is Image Metabase™ an image hosting service?
A: NO! It uses thumbnail (reduce sized) images copied from external web sites, while linking to the original page where the image came from.

Q: What is a "Metabase"?
A: A Metabase is a Database for storing meta tags.

Q: What is a "Meta Tag"?
A: Meta tags small peices of information which can be "tagged" onto something like an image. An examples would be "Red Hair" and "Sunset" for a portrait photo of someone with red hair with a sunset in the background scene.

Q: What is the purpose of a meta tag?
A: Computers by themselves cannot pick out what is in a picture. By adding meta tags to images, we can then use computers to search through a collection of images to find what we want more easily.

Q: Who is responsible for adding meta tags to images?
A: By default, any registered user can start adding any number of tags to any image within the metabase, reguardless of who submitted the image.

Q: How is vandalism prevented?
A: By default, users cannot add arbitrary tags. Instead, users may only add pre-approved tags designated by moderators. Additionally, adding tags to images is handled by a voting system where a specific number of users must agree that each tags belongs on a specified image before the tag will be applied.