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Preservation
What Is a Preservation Workflow for Digital Photography?
preservation workflow, process, archivingSix stages, from memory card to periodic verification. What makes it a chain rather than a set of good intentions.
Metadata
Which IPTC Fields Should You Use for a Photo Archive?
IPTC, metadata, archivingThe standard has dozens of fields. The eight that make the difference, and the order to fill them in.
Metadata
How to Build a Photo Tag Convention That Holds
tags, vocabulary, organizationA 300-keyword collection is unmanageable; a 30-keyword one works. The rules that stop a tag list from drifting.
Method
How to Build a Photographic Catalogue Raisonné
catalogue raisonné, heritage, documentationThe scholarly inventory of a body of work: what it holds, how to structure it, and the distinctions you cannot skip.
Organization
What Is a DAM for Photography, and Do You Need One?
DAM, catalog, organizationThe acronym covers wildly different tools. What a DAM actually adds, and the signals that tell you the question is real.
Organization
What Is Image Deduplication in a Photo Catalog?
duplicates, deduplication, organizationExact duplicate, near-duplicate, version: three different situations wrongly treated the same way. How to tell them apart before deleting.
Metadata
What Is Dublin Core for Photo Collections?
Dublin Core, standards, interoperabilityFifteen simple elements, designed to be understood by any system. What Dublin Core brings to a photo collection, and where it stops.
Metadata
Write Metadata Into Originals or Into XMP Sidecars?
XMP, sidecar, metadataA trade-off between the risk of touching the original and the risk of losing a companion file. The answer depends on the format.
Preservation
Ed25519 and SHA-256: What Are They For in a Photo Archive?
SHA-256, Ed25519, integrityOne detects a change, the other proves an origin. Two tools often conflated, with very different guarantees.
Metadata
What Is a Sidecar XMP File?
XMP, sidecar, metadataThe small .xmp file sitting next to your RAW, what it holds, and the two rules that stop you losing work through it.
Preservation
What Is Fixity in Digital Preservation?
fixity, integrity, checksumFixity is the property that lets you state a file hasn't changed. How it's established, and why a backup doesn't guarantee it.
Method
Managing the Provenance of a Photographic Work, Day to Day
provenance, sources, heritageBuilding a chain, arbitrating contradictory sources, documenting a gap. The real work, after the theory.
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