DATE: JULY 8 to August 20, 2008
All references on photos refers to photos including videos.
• There are millions of photos about various towns in Cebu in thousands of websites and computers worldwide.
• Most photos are not properly labelled or tagged or uploaded to the internet, thus making them inaccessible to search engines, and making it difficult to locate such photos except to the immediate user
• Properly tagging such photos already in the internet, as well as encouraging people to upload such photos to the internet will increase the ability of other seekers to find photos about Cebu and its countryside.
The contest is open from July 8 to August 20, 2008.
WHO CAN JOIN? The contest is open to all individuals, students, professionals and bloggers.
a. The contestant can search around the internet to look for photos/videos about any of the 44 towns of Cebu.
b. The contestant can also upload his/her own photos into public gallery sites like Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Youtube and the like.
c. Once a contestant finds a photo that he or she feels is a good shot of a Cebu town than depicts its monuments, churches, house, business or way of living, then he or she may take the URL of the photo, and submit it on the appropriate category (the categories pertains to the 44 towns and city). The contestant does not have to be the owner of the photo since he is just describing the keywords of that photo and the website is officially not using the photo, but only holding its keywords, label or description.
d. The contestant must then submit the URL at the site, and write a tag or labels of a minimum of 10 words to label the picture/video. After successfully submitting such, the user will get an entry number.
e. The contestant may register and submit the entry at the Mandaue Chamber Official Website at www.ccebu.net/mandaue. The submission of entries should be no later than August 18, 2008, 5:00 pm.
This is a contest where the winners will be chosen by raffle. After the contest close, There will be a count of all entries (each entry has a number), and a randomly generated number will be generated. The entry of the winning number will then be verified:- is it really a picture about the town it purports to be?- is the picture of acceptable quality depicts the town life or culture heritage?- is the description or keyword an apt one that successfully describes the picture. Only if it conforms to the quality will the winner be declared.
PRIZES. There will be 3 winners on the “Sugbu Kini: MBM Photo/Video 2008” tag contest.• 1st prize - P8,000 cash or gift cheque • 2nd prize - P5,000 cash or gift cheque • 3rd prize - P2,000 cash or gift cheque
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Q&A:Question: Would tagging photos belonging to others violate their Intellectual Property Rights?
We are asking people to put into a our website their description of a photo that they saw in other websites through a Link. Our website will not be using or displaying the photo in our website nor use it at anytime unless the user claims it that they own the photo. The winner will be chosen by raffle, so the person who labels the photo is not benefitting from the quality of the work of the photo.
Should there be a site that prohibits expressly from linking to their site which is very rare, and the user wins in the raffle, we may require the user to solicit written permission before the prize will be given.
Submit your entries here