I’ve been taking pictures since I was a teenager now my kids have grown up an I have over 90k pics.

I’m also digitizing Slides, 8mm film, printed pic etc.

Any ideas on software , techniques, steps, cool ideas to organize this and maybe put them to some use ?

Thank you 🙏

  • uprightanimalBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Simple folder structure by date taken: /yyyy/yyyy-mm-dd/originalFilename.ext

    E.g Photo_Archive/2014/2014-12-24/DSC003_2769.NEF

    I put all contextual information in the keywords or exif/IPTc metadata.

    I like this format because I can easily drill down to a desired image if I know when it was taken, and it makes it easier to parse and traverse the tree if I have to script a tool to do something.

    Having said that, it’s a hell of a lot easier when they’re digital photos and not scanned. When I’m scanning batches of slides I number the boxes, then use the dates on the slides and similar format: /35mm_scans/yyyy/box#/IMG_yyyy-mm_nn.tif Where filename is the year/month on the slide, and nn is the slide number.

    • Correct_Signal_OPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Good ideas. The scanning is time consuming even though I bought a high speed scanner. But it’s cataloguing is easier since I can on the fly create folders for the event year etc.