{"id":187,"date":"2010-01-01T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorper98.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/01\/managing-my-picture-collection-online\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:19:27","slug":"managing-my-picture-collection-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/managing-my-picture-collection-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing My Picture Collection Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my holiday break, I took\u00a0 on the job of organizing my digital photo collection.\u00a0 For years I\u2019ve neglected and procrastinated this task.\u00a0 Fortunately I have fairly organized for the last two or three years.\u00a0 The organization my wife and I finally decided to follow was to save the photos into folders by year, and then place each \u201cevent\u201d inside a sub-folder.\u00a0\u00a0 Inside each picture would be named (yyyymmdd-xxxx)\u00a0\u00a0 where xxx is the number.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Note: why can’t digital cameras offer a similar format instead ? \u2013 See my posting on picture renaming tools<\/a> as well).<\/p>\n

Not including the first 12 years which are in negatives and are in the process of being scanned ( no small task), in the end, we have collected about 52,000 pictures in 1,500 folders\u00a0 (65Gb)\u00a0 over the past 11 years.\u00a0\u00a0 (I will confess that most of these are not great and could only matter to my wife and I, but I just can not let them go yet).<\/p>\n

So now that, everything is neatly organized in my NAS\u00a0 (managed with File Explorer) and appropriately backed-up to a hard disk and to my Amazon EWS account, what is next you ask?\u00a0 – In my view, this is simply data neatly stacked away. No way to search, catalog or tag any of the pictures.\u00a0\u00a0 For example:<\/p>\n