---
title: "Overview"
canonical_url: https://support.digitalphotogallery.com/articles/article/6b8fd1a4-080d-11e6-8390-16474ff850f4
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category: "Guides > Teams > Using DPG for collaborative galleries > Keywords"
locale: en
updated_at: 2017-11-21T22:19:54Z
source: Digital Photo Gallery Support
---

# Overview

Keywords allow you to organise images, both for internal categorisation and to easily give structure to website galleries. On websites, keyword pages can be used to pull in content with certain keywords, allowing visitors to navigate and discover further. 

Keywords can be added by photographers during their editing process, so any important information is captured and attached to content in the system for later use.

### Keyword types
There are two types of keywords - **simple keywords** and **namespaced keywords**.

![](https://cache.media.digitalphotogallery.com/hyqelgcvfopo/images/f5821310-4563-11e7-a244-2e80af156eae/834_support.jpg?generated=20170530191544)
As you can see by the different icons, *artist*, *day* and *stage* are namespaced keywords, while *Crowd* and *People* are simple keywords.

### Simple Keywords

Simple keywords are useful for organising images by theme, content or descriptor to help users find content. For example, tagging things like *Crowd* or *Fireworks* so that those images are easy to find in future. With large galleries, it's also a good idea to tag best and noteworthy images (we suggest *Highlights*).

[▶ Video](https://cache.dpg.media/hyqelgcvfopo/videos/36ec13fc-456c-11e7-892f-2e80af156eae/43dc091e-456c-11e7-892f-2e80af156eae.mp4)

### Namespaced keywords

![](https://cache.media.digitalphotogallery.com/hyqelgcvfopo/images/acd320b2-458d-11e7-974c-2e80af156eae/841_support.jpg?generated=20170531001623)

Namespaced keywords are used to group together keywords of the same type. 

They are useful for cataloguing things like artists, areas or events. 

This example shows an image with **artist:** and **day:** keywords.} 

In the music festival gallery [demo](https://festival.dpg.gallery/2017/artists/) below, the Artists page is configured to pull in images keyworded with the **artist:** namespace. For example, artist:Long Thief and artist:Lovely Vista. This automatically populates the page to show all the artist images from the festival. 

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### Namespaced keyword conventions

Namespaced keywords use this format:

```
namespace:Item
```

* The namespace should always be lowercase followed by a colon (:), e.g. **artist:** or **stage:**
* There should be no space before or after the :, e.g. **artist:Coldplay** not **artist : Coldplay**
* The item after the namespace should be written in standard case e.g. **day:Saturday**

DPG will try and correct some keyword formatting issues for you, but you should still try and follow these rules.

> ⚠️ **Warning:** Keywords are case-sensitive so artist:Lana Del Rey is different from artist:LANA DEL REY. Inconsistent capitalisation will result in duplicate keywords showing up in your gallery. You can correct keyword case by using the rename function or by [validating your keywords](https://support.digitalphotogallery.com/articles/article/5e5afd2a-4492-11e7-8586-3e1faff2bde0) with the correct case before the event.

### Examples

Some suggestions for festival keywords:

* **day:**Saturday
* **artist:**Taylor Swift
* **stage:**Main Stage
* **area:**Campsite
* Individual keywords such as People, Food and Drink, Fireworks
* Highlights

### Viewing keywords
You can see all the keywords in your account by visiting [the keywords section](https://admin.digitalphotogallery.com/account/images/keywords).

When working on a specific event it's always best to show just the keywords for the gallery you are working on, by going into the relevant set. 
[▶ Video](https://cache.dpg.media/hyqelgcvfopo/videos/cba98c0e-4567-11e7-bf71-2e80af156eae/e320d0b8-4567-11e7-bf71-2e80af156eae.mp4)

> 💡 **Tip:** You can create a [custom shortcut](https://support.digitalphotogallery.com/articles/article/3cdb017a-080e-11e6-8390-16474ff850f4) to the Gallery page to make it even easier to navigate there.

### Adding keywords to images

![](https://cache.media.digitalphotogallery.com/hyqelgcvfopo/images/04f48f7e-c631-11e6-aef5-7a0f266557bf/326_support.jpg?generated=20161219212121)

Keywords can be added in image editing software such as Adobe Lightroom and imported by using the **Get details from image metadata** option on the image upload screen in DPG. 

 Users and admins can add or remove keywords [using the DPG interface](https://support.digitalphotogallery.com/articles/article/eb94ce26-ab82-11e2-bb5f-b8f6b11825bb).}

### Viewing keywords on the site

You can view images with a specific keyword on the website by adding the following to the gallery URL:

```
?image_keywords=keywordhere

```

For example, to view the Crowd keyword:
https://festival.dpg.gallery/2017/gallery/?image_keywords=Crowd

You can also chain keywords by separating them with a comma in the url: 
https://festival.dpg.gallery/2017/gallery/?image_keywords=People,Crowd 
this shows the People and Crowd keywords. 

### Dynamic keywords

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### Keyword profiles

![](https://cache.media.digitalphotogallery.com/hyqelgcvfopo/images/a000f856-7acb-11e6-97f7-aab69d8b7bb7/250_support.jpg?generated=20160914233943)

[Keyword profiles](https://support.digitalphotogallery.com/articles/article/ce675ac4-63eb-11e6-974d-be279144b405) allow you to add extra information and links to a keyword page, which is great for brands and sponsors or to add information to public galleries.}

### Searching for keywords

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