Keeping Personal Digital Photographs Perhaps more than any other kind of personal digital information, photos have rich personal meaning. And photos are unique: if they are lost, the information they provide can never be replaced. You will want to keep at least some of your digital photos for a long time. Focus attention on organizing your important photos by placing them into related groups.
Archiving Tips Identify where you have digital photos * Identify all your digital photos on cameras, computers and removable media such as memory cards. * Include your photos on the Web. Decide which photos are most important * Pick the images you feel are especially important. * You can pick a few photos or many. * If there are multiple versions of an important photo, save the one with highest quality. Organize the selected photos * Give individual photos descriptive file names. * Tag photos with names of people and descriptive subjects . * Create a directory/folder structure on your computer to put the images you picked. * Write a brief description of the directory structure and the photos. Make copies and store them in different places * Make at least two copies of your selected photos—more copies are better. * One copy can stay on your computer or laptop; put other copies on separate media such as DVDs, CDs, portable hard drives, thumb drives or Internet storage. * Store copies in different locations that are as physically far apart as practical. If disaster strikes one location, your photographs in the other place should be safe. * Put a copy of the photo inventory with your important papers in a secure location. * Check your photos at least once a year to make sure you can read them. * Create new media copies every five years or when necessary to avoid data loss. Download this page (PDF, 213 Kb) http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you/docs/PA_photo.pdf Fonte: Library of Congress http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you/content/photos.html _______________________________________________ Arquivos da Bib_virtual: http://listas.ibict.br/pipermail/bib_virtual/ Instruções para desiscrever-se por conta própria: http://listas.ibict.br/cgi-bin/mailman/options/bib_virtual Bib_virtual mailing list [email protected] http://listas.ibict.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bib_virtual
