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.
Packaging considerations:
Format - What file formats are you preserving?
https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/index.shtml
Organizing the files - Syncing requires that you consider how the files are organized.
Metadata - What metadata do you need, have, and what metadata will be created automatically? https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DURACLOUDDOC/DuraCloud+Sync+Tool#DuraCloudSyncTool-Metadata
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