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Subject: [OM] Re: Digital Archiving Help
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 06:12:08 +0100
Discipline Piers, now there's a thing.  If only I could be sure that I 
really will not need that shot....

Chris

On 7 Jul 2004, at 15:44, Piers Hemy wrote:

>
>
snip
> I disagree with the "code" approach, because your future ability to 
> find
> images from your 'database' depends on how farsighted you were when you
> designed your index.  As James says "once you know the film..." but as 
> the
> 'database' gets bigger, you get older, and there is more chaff to sort
> through to find the wheat.  Or maybe it's barley you're going to be 
> looking
> for.  I have no faith in my own prescience (but that doesn't exclude 
> your
> faith in your own, of course).  But I can endorse what Jan went on to 
> say:
> "The key to ANY imagebase is good keywording. There isn't really any 
> good
> way to do that automatically. It takes discipline. I keyword 
> immediately
> when adding."
>
> Hope it helps to give a rounded view!
>
> Piers
<|_:-)_|>

C M I Barker
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