Photographer’s Guide to the Digital Lifecycle


Photographers, videographers, and other creative content makers are dealing with a new world of media that presents the challenge of managing all their raw and prepared data produced in the creative process. The framework for managing this data must go beyond Digital Asset Management (DAM) to the holistic data lifecycle perspective.

Enter Photographer’s Guide to the Digital Lifecycle. Offering much more than a DAM book—this is a comprehensive guide to modern, real-world digital asset storage practices. It goes beyond things like metadata and how to use DAM applications and looks at the whole process, from ingest to archive. In addition to the usual DAM concerns of metadata and tagging, Photographer’s Guide to the Digital Lifecycle brings to light the fundamental strengths and weaknesses of the digital storage mediums we choose and the best techniques for applying them. It looks beyond DAM software to real-life examples for keeping your data safe and managed, from the moment of production to its status as historical artifact.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. A Starting Point
Chapter 2. Planning Your Creative Workflow
Chapter 3. Organizing the Ingest Process
Chapter 4. Understanding Storage and Server Solutions
Chapter 5. Implementing a Backup Plan
Chapter 6. Archiving Your Assets
Chapter 7. Recovering Your Data
Chapter 8. Understanding Digital Asset Management Tools

Book Details

  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders Press (May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321771605
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321771605
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