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 how to package these for digital preservation is a worthwhile activity. It will assist you with syncing files, creating instructions for your producers, and for populating your digital workflows.
Considerations:
Metadata - What metadata do you need, have, and what metadata will be created automatically?
Format - What file formats are you preserving? Does the content need to be transformed prior to packaging?
Organization - Syncing requires that you consider how the files are organized.
Packaging Issue | Born-digital Photographs acquired in a single batch |
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Organize by Date, Project, or Photographer Organized by Accession or Purchase | |
Packaging Issue | Born-digital Photographs with multiple versions |
Packaging Issue | Digitized Photographs created in a single batch |
Organized by Date, Project, or Digitizing Vendor Organized by Photograph version (primary, access, crop, etc.) | |
Packaging Format Consideration