Frequently Asked Questions

No. The Zorroa Platform never modifies your original assets. Assets are in place, and never moved.

Curator securely communicates with Archivist, Zorroa’s search and analysis server. The communication and access to all of your assets and data requires authentication to secure your data.

The default administrator account is:

You should change this password to improve security. When unchanged, the Curator will log you in automatically at startup. However you may need to enter these credentials in certain circumstances.

Open the Window > Users dialog to manage users and passwords. The default username is admin and the default password is admin. We recommend changing this password to secure your data. To change your password, select a user and type a new password into the Password text field in the User dialog. You will be asked to confirm the change by retyping the password. Once confirmed, the password is changed and you will need to use it when you restart the Curator.

Open the Window > User dialog to add new users. Click on the + at the bottom of the user list to create a new user. You can update the user’s information by selecting a user in the list and typing new information in the text fields on the right side. You cannot change the username once you have created a user, but you can delete users and create a new one with the new username.

No. Source images are never modified.

Each user has a set of permissions which control the folders and assets they can view and modify. Access control lists (ACLs) on folders and assets are difficult to configure in the current release. Subsequent releases will simplify editing of asset and folder permissions.

Folder permissions can be viewed by right clicking on the folder. Asset permissions can be viewed in the metadata “permissions” namespace.

Permissions can be created for individual projects using the File > New Permission menu item. Permissions can be assigned to users in the Windows > User dialog. Folder ACLs can be set to restrict access to the current user when the folder is first created using the “Public folder” checkbox. Asset ACLs are set using the Permission ingestor during an import. To add asset permissions:

1. Open the Window > Pipeline dialog.
2. Use the left-most “+” to add a new pipeline.
3. Select the new pipeline and use the middle “+” to add the Permission ingestor.
4. Select the new permission ingestor and edit its arguments to add permissions with the following JSON syntax: { “export”:[“permission name”], “search”:[“p0”, “p1”, …], “write”:[“p1”, “p3”, …] }

Assets can have three types of permissions, export controls whether the user can export source data, search controls whether the assets appears in search results, and write controls the user’s ability to modify the asset.

Keywords that you search for can come from two sources:

• Pre-existing metadata from the original source assets or;
• Metadata added by Zorroa’s Ingestors, which are run on every asset at import time.

One of the default Ingestors is the Tensorflow Ingestor which uses convolutional neural networks to classify objects in an image. It’s only one example of the kind of analysis that the Zorroa Platform can easily integrate into its pipeline. So, the reason that photos of your wife show up when you search for ‘tiger’ is that Tensorflow thought there was a tiger in that image. Maybe she has stripes. Just don’t tell her.

Keywords that you search for can come from two sources:

• Pre-existing metadata that came with the assets or;
• Metadata added by Zorroa’s Ingestors, which are run on every asset at import time.

One of the default Ingestors is the Face Ingestor which detects faces in images. Like all AI, it is not exact and may sometimes miss or mischaracterize. So, in this case it looks like you have some images of faces that were not detected by our Ingestor.

It depends on how many and the size of the images you are importing, as well as system factors like your network speed. Currently we don’t do an estimation of how long an import will take. The best thing to do is to look at the tooltip that appears when you hover the cursor over the Import folder. It will tell you how many assets have been imported, and what the current speed of import is, in assets per second.

No. Zorroa never modifies your assets. You can export assets from Zorroa and store them wherever you like.