Overview: Digital photographs are produced primarily in two ways: natively born digital via a camera, or through a transformation, such as digitization. In both cases, there can be multiple versions, file formats, and file sizes for the digital photograph files. Considering in advance how to package these for digital preservation is a worthwhile activity. It will assist you with syncing files, creating instructions for your producers, and populating your digital workflows.
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Packaging considerations:
Selection - Which digital photographs will be preserved?
Format - What file formats are you preserving?
Organizing the files - How are the files organized? Will you need to make changes?
Metadata - What metadata do you need, and have, and what metadata will be created automatically?
Selection
- Do you need to keep all versions of the digital photographs?
- See your Collection Management policy
Digital Photograph File Format
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https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/stillimg.html
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Grouping the files
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Packaging Issue | Born-digital Digital Photographs acquired in a single batch |
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Organize by Date, Project, or Photographer/Digitizing Vendor Organized Organize by Accession or Purchase | |
Packaging Issue | Born-digital Digital Photographs with multiple versions |
Packaging Issue | Digitized Photographs created in a single batch |
Organized by Date, Project, or Digitizing Vendor Organized Organize by Photograph version (primary, access, crop, etc.) |
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Organize by |