Monday, December 14, 2009

Re: Photo Archiving Solutions

The generic term for what you are looking for is Digital Asset
Management (DAM), which covers all digital assets. With paper, copies
were tossed in a drawer, then boxed up, then become discovered treasures
years later. These are where the wonderful pictures of our schools in
the early part of last century come from.With the conversion to digital,
most schools do not have anything equivalent to the file drawer that is
then boxed up. Instead, it's on a hard drive that disappears. I think
that future members of our schools will look back for history and find a
ten or twenty year gap due to the conversion from paper to digital
without an archiving solution in place. (Of course, how many of you have
seen a school history tossed out because "nobody wants what's in those
boxes?")

I hope others here have answers as I have none.

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On 12/14/2009 3:45 PM, Yares, Ali wrote:
> We are looking into long term solutions for storing digital photos& documents. Many of our pictures are high resolution and I am looking for what kinds of systems other schools have in place for archiving these types of media.
>
> I am also interested in seeing what types of systems you have in place for tagging within these systems.
>
> Have any of you purchased server space?
>
> Who have you given access to upload photos or view photos?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ali
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Ali Yares
> Park School of Baltimore
> Information Manager
> 410-339-7070, ext. 4671
> ayares@parkschool.net
> Blog: http://schoolsocialmedia.blogspot.com/
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