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Preservation
Photo Archive Audit: A Method and a Checklist for Measuring Risk
audit, integrity, storage mediaAgeing drives, missing copies, duplicates, unreadable files: a method and a checklist to audit your photo archive and decide what to fix first.
Organization
How to Catalog a Large Photo Archive of Tens of Thousands of Images
photo archive, cataloguing, duplicatesInventory, deduplicate, consolidate, then describe in batches and structure into works: a step-by-step method to catalog a large, scattered photo archive.
Preservation
Photo Backup Software: The Criteria That Actually Matter
backup, integrity, restoreReal integrity checks, restores that overwrite nothing, offsite copies, open formats: the concrete criteria for choosing photo backup software, and the traps.
Migration
Lightroom for Photo Archiving: Limits and Alternatives
Lightroom, migration, archivingA development catalog is not an archive. What a photo archive asks for beyond Lightroom Classic, and how to bring a .lrcat catalog over without losing your work.
Preservation
Photo Archive Software for Mac: What Professionals Should Look For
photo archiving software, Mac, preservationChoosing photo archive software for Mac: nine concrete criteria, from untouched originals to tested restores, and how each app in the Obscura Flow suite meets them.
Metadata
Photo Catalog Software: 9 Criteria for Choosing Well
cataloguing, metadata, catalogue raisonnéHow to choose photo catalog software: nine criteria to test on your own files, from originals to open export formats, and the traps that cost you years later.
Organization
Organizing Family Photo Archives the Way Archivists Do
family archives, arrangement, ISAD(G)Photos, prints, notebooks, letters: organizing family photo archives or a studio's records with archival method, from fonds to item, all the way to handover.
Organization
A Photo Archive Workflow, Step by Step: From Import to Restore
workflow, photo archive, preservationInventory, review duplicates, consolidate, describe, archive, restore: a photo archive workflow for an artist's work, step by step, with the trap hidden in each one.
Method
How to Preserve the Context of a Photo Archive: What the Image Does Not Say
context, provenance, archivesA photo often outlives its context: who, where, why, provenance, exhibitions, letters. How to record that context and keep it readable alongside the image.
Preservation
How to Restore a Photo Archive Without Overwriting Anything
restore, integrity, archivesPrepare, pick the right copy, restore beside what's there, verify, then record it: a step-by-step method to restore a photo archive without losing files.
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.
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