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**nano** · January 20th 08, 07:26 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems

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lid says...
I agree. I'd google Digital Asset Management ... you'll find one book
and a ton of information, much more than we could tell you in replies.
There's a couple of forums out there too. I think one may be on the
website of the author who wrote the DAM - Digital Asset Management book.

Good luck.

One aspect of the various DAMs that I'm not sure of (I've looked at
lightroom and iMatch now) that is at the core of what might be shaping
up into a 'plan', is can they create thumbnail galleries, or catalogs of
any type, for storage that is off line?

I'm still not sure exactly what approach I'm going to take re the
physical storage of the files, but the post by Paul Furman makes a lot
of sense, that is to keep identical copies of the original images on two
separate external hard disks. There will be more than one pair of these
disks, and they'd not always be connected. But it'd be ideal to have the
cataloge or thumgnail gallery available on the main workstation, for all
archived images, even if the disk is not connected. Can they do that?
Most of the stuff I've read deals with organizing images, even
processing them, and that's fine, but my #1 issue is archiving, being
able to reference those archives in a transparent manner.