<div dir="ltr">This is a great question, and I am curious to hear with other librarians have to say. Personally, I archive family photos and videos into folders by name of individual (I duplicate the files into multiple folders if more than one person is depicted in them), and title the files with date and content information in a standardized format using machine and human readable best practices to sort them (e.g. in the folder titled "Jenna Nolt" you might find a file called "1985_01_09_FirstSnowDay"). I work with the files in Google Drive (not Google Photos, I find it easier to organize and share in Drive, but that is a personal preference), then back them up to an external solid state drive (e.g.
<a href="https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-t5-1tb-external-usb-type-c-portable-solid-state-drive-deep-black/6026202.p?skuId=6026202">https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-t5-1tb-external-usb-type-c-portable-solid-state-drive-deep-black/6026202.p?skuId=6026202</a>). I consider the external solid state drive to be the "archival" storage, and use Google Drive for sharing with family and friends. This is a pretty labor intensive process, but the best one for surviving tech changes that I've found over the past ten years. <div><br></div><div>Best wishes and good luck with your archiving,</div><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jenna Nolt (she/her/hers)</div><div dir="ltr"><div>Digital Initiatives Librarian</div><div>Mod C, Office 12<br></div><div><div>Kenyon College</div><div>103 College Dr.<br></div><div>Gambier, OH 43022</div><div><a value="+17404275698" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">740-427-5698</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:45 AM Carleton, Janet <<a href="mailto:carleton@ohio.edu">carleton@ohio.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hi, Janet!<br>
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I’m not sure whether this is a question you can answer directly, or maybe just a presentation idea for the group.<br>
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The Information Age has afforded even us consumers the ability to collect thousands of digital media files – so much that, like libraries, it’s a challenge to retrieve what we need. For example: searching, between his death and his wake, for all the photos
and videos of grandpa.<br>
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Are you aware of any durable standards, tools, or tips for consumers to organize and index digital images and videos, such as home movies, especially after they have been digitized?<br>
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By “durable,” I mean that they are still likely to be efficiently searchable, in 10 or even 20 years, After cloud websites have either closed or started charging a lot, and after technology and standards have evolved.
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I wouldn’t mind driving down to Central Ohio to ask your members in person, but thought it would be wise to ask first whether I’m “barking up the right tree.”<br>
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Thanks, and happy Thanksgiving!<br>
Brian Baddour<br>
Cleveland, Ohio<br>
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