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August 08, 2003
Digital Workflow Infrastructure
If you’ve been working for years in photography, you’ve undoubtedly amassed mountains of negative strips and transparencies. You’ve probably also established a reliable filing system. It is reassuring to see row after row of boxes and binders, each containing images that have been carefully filed and indexed.
Archiving digital images requires a completely different mindset. You need to build a digital workflow infrastructure.
Digital images differ importantly from analogue images such as film negatives. Negatives tend to degrade slowly over the years, perhaps picking up damage when they are in use...
Digital images do not generally show this gradual decline. Any loss tends to be immediate and catastrophic... You need to plan your digital storage to take account of this difference.
Posted by Don Tracy at August 8, 2003 02:20 PM