Hello All, Thanks for your input! I wanted to 'expand' on how I'm handling this family photo archive project. :-) I AM COMMITTED TO DOING THE SCANNING AND ORGANIZING OF FILES O-N-C-E DOING IT R-I-G-H-T AND NOT HAVING TO REPEAT THE W-O-R-K FOR THESE PARTICULAR PHOTOGRAPHS! My work motto is ' Do it Right, Do it Right the First Time, And Not Do It Over!"
My Goal is to finish this project with a 'product' that is something a Photographer (like me) many years in the future will have the 'data' to do anything he wants to do with any particular image. Equally important, I want the 'data' to be a genealogical and historical treasure trove to whoever goes through the image files and associated 'data'. I'm not doing any 'genealogical' work per se, but am going to work to 'tag' the images with as much names, dates, and event info as I can glean for each image. A) The Original Photographs will NOT Be Discarded! Very little beats having the originals, but I am mostly left with cheap color prints from the 70's and 80's at this point and the underlying chemistry of how these were made defines them as NON-Archival. The HUGE quantities of black and whites (the Good Stuff) is either buried at the landfill or burned at the County Incinerator. Sigh. B) The Scans them selves will be at deep resolutions and a good bit depth. With nominal adjustments and editing to keep the image files 'true' and without forced color or contrast changes. This minimizes my workload and keeps from having 'image data' lost through the 'restoration' process. C) I'll be using TIFF file format because it turnes out that it is an industry norm for long term digital image storage. D) The Names and Date info for each image will be stored integral to the image file itself. This way each image stands on it's own as a seperate file and if 'say' half the files on a disc become unreadable, it has no material effect on retrieving all the info important to the other half of the files. E) I'll be practicing a defense in depth strategy for storing the files: --- Two copies of the data set will be disperesed to a geographically diverse group of relatives and in good numbers (My Dad is one of 10 kids!). --- The Dispered Copies will be One set of discs for 'use' and one will be for 'storage'. The 'Storage' set will hopefully be in a nice container that wil give a high likelyhood of the discs in their cases will stay vertical and be kept stress free. I'm shooting for a really elegant storage container - custom wood box ? - that shouts "I'm important - Take Good Care Of Me!" I'm leaning toward jpeg's on the 'for use' discs to maximize the convenience. Nothing firm on that front has been decided yet. --- My personal copies of the 'storage set' will be multiple and on diverse media including Optical and HD. F) I am 'Planning' to use a Scheduled Media RollOver Process to keep the data safe for many many years. I'm hoping to be doing the process every 5 yrs with media I can count on for 10yrs. Maybe it's something I'll do every year, every other year. Query! - As someone who has definitely experienced the loss of data in hd failure, optical disc failure/damage, floppy/zip failure, and video tape decay. I wonder how something as fragile as 'Tapes' can be advocated over high grade opticals for my application. A 'corporate' structure and funding can create a viability for corporate data storage on tapes, but it seems quite expensive and effort intensive to keep the tapes viable and quite actively replacing tapes over time. This isn't Liberty Mutual Insurance with billions on the line and the millions to support the project! It's just us - the ward family - and large segments of our family are barely middle class and none are rich financially :-). Myself, I'm coping with multiple illnesses and only made a few thousand dollars last year! :-) To Everybody, I'm doing this scan project because of how important Photographs and Images are to me. I am in my soul a very caring, creative, and intensely visual person who has bonded those qualities to the art and science of photography. I am doing this to Protect my Dad's Families visual heritage and to disperse it to family members spread from Michigan, to Kansas, to Florida, to California. Richard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
