General

Hans tries to follow the following principles for his digital photo albums.

Photo album program

Any program that don't destroy the EXIF and IPTC meta data can be used. No program specific database information should be used.

Archive folder naming

The photos are stored in folders with the date as the first item and folder name in lower case only, with no spaces:

2007_06_vacation_denmark
2007_07_14_radioorienteering

If required, subfolders may be used for edited images which are duplicated from the originals:

2007_06_vacation_denmark
     |--- Edited

2007_07_14_radioorienteering
     |--- Edited

Meta data

Photo data should be stored as EXIF data in the "original" file. This is done automatically for new digital photos and when scanning old negatives or positives.

Meta data should be stored as IPTC data in the "original" file, see below.

IPTC data

The IPTC data should be filled in afterwards with as much information as possible.

Tags

The following hierarchical tags are used:

- Events
     |--- Celebration
     |--- Sports
     |--- Vacation
     |--- Work

- Objects

- People
     |--- Family
     |       |--- Close family
     |       |--- Relatives
     |
     |--- Friends
             |--- Friends to X
             |--- Friends to Y

- Places
     |--- Xxxx

The following fixed data should be used: