How do you catalog your company's photos?

[MBony]

The company I work for has a construction branch that are constantly having high quality photos made of their locations and I was wondering what ways others catalog their cd-r/dvd-r's for keeping track of them. Do you dump them onto a HDD or use some sort of check out system?

At the moment we have an oversized shoes box with separators by letter. What do you do?

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Are you dealing with just print, just electronic, or a combination of both? What is the rough size of the collection (in both items and linear feet)?


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Edit: PM me if you want to talk on the phone or something, this might be easier to do with live chat.

 

[xanis]

For digital files, I have a designated folder on my HDD. Photos are separated into folders by date and/or subject. If I decide to back up the files to DVD or CD, it makes it easy because I can just put a certain number of folders on the disc and label the disc with a date range (ex: 1/1/09 - 3/1/09). I keep a backup of the entire photo folder on an external drive, just in case.

For print stuff, I keep things in plain black binders, and label them using labels I print out at home. I put the stuff in clear plastic sheets to protect and keep everything safe.

 

[D1gger]

We have moved to all digital files for our construction projects. We then electronically file the photos by project number and date.

Folder structure

Project Year
------> Project Number
-------------> Pictures
------------------> Date

If a project spans more than one year, the Project Number folder will be under the start year, and a shortcut folder will be in the next year(s) until the project is complete.

 

[WildHorse]

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