Digital Photo Management

Using Metadata to Store, Protect and Find Your Images
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-240-81012-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Digital Workflow

Overwhelmed with images files? Need to set up a system but don't know where to start? Concerened about metadata and protecting your long term income? Then this guide is for you!

File Management for Photographers is a step by step guide to setting up and managing a system to handle analog and digital image files. It offers solutions to tailoring the system and streamlining your workflow.

David Riecks guides you through the process with clear information, screengrabs from relevant programs, flow diagrams, bulleted lists and tips from the pros.

You will learn how to:

Create a file management system from scratch, using whatever applications you currently own, and to update your current system to meet changing demands.

Develop systems that meet your individual needs, AND that mesh with the needs of your vendors and buyers.

Preserve metadata in your images to protect long-term income.

* A step by step guide to setting up and managing a system to handle analog and digital image files.

* Helps you to save time and streamline your workflow.

* How to develop systems that meet your individual needs, AND that mesh with the needs of your vendors and buyers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riecks, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Ausrüstung & Technik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Digitale Fotographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

How to use this book; Overview: Organizational Strategies; Filenaming; Metadata Description Standards; File Format Considerations; Creating a Digital Archive; DAM: Catalogers, Browsers & Annotators; Using Cataloging Software; Using Browser Software; Using Annotation Software; Metalogging; Controlled Vocabulary; File Integration & Migration; Image File Sharing and Transfer; Storage Management; Document Security; The Future; Summary; Glossary; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Riecks, David
David Riecks is a recognized correspondent on digital subjects and a working assignment and stock photographer, represented by Mira and AGE Fotostock, as well as licensed directly from his own website.

Riecks was an early proponent of digital imaging and has become a "digital guru" to his peers. He is a regular contributor on several professional forums, and gives seminars on creating image-intensive websites. He was a principal developer of Mira's "digital standards," and founded ControlledVocabulary.com as a resource to help others learn how best to build controlled vocabulary lists, thesauri, and keyword hierarchies for describing images in databases.

He currently chairs the SAA Imaging Technology Standards committee which urges industry adoption and of metadata standards. He serves as the Chief Technical Advisor for the PLUS Coalition, which developed the Picture Licensing Universal Standards. Riecks formerly chaired the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) Digital Photography Standards & Practices committee, where he co-founded the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines coalition (http://www.updig.org/).

Riecks contributes to the Digital Image Submission Criteria (DISC) and Digital Image Metadata Management (DIM2) working groups organized by the IDEAlliance. He is also part of the IPTC4XMP working groups, which developed the IPTC Core metadata schema for Photoshop CS2, and contributes to the current IPTC PhotoMetadata Working Group, which is charged with making the IPTC Core more relevant for the stock photography industry.

In 2006, he was a featured speaker at the first Microsoft Pro Photo Summit. There, he premiered the Metadata Manifesto, a document that he co-authored with the Executive Director of the Stock Artists Alliance, Betsy Reid and SAA member Rivaldo Does. http://metadatamanifesto.blogspot.com/.