A friend asks for any suggested reading on personal (or at least not big institutional) archival practices for digital photos. Especially interested in how we review and delete the bad'uns. Thinking of something like a sequel to Crampt's Listening to Images...

I remember HCI people interested in this kind of thing back when I was in grad school, but iirc the findings there were mostly that people use no features (don't review, don't delete, don't categorize, later have trouble retrieving anything).

@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social not to surface The Archive again....

Anyway, that's not a link to any readings, but is a real world example of how one amateur photographer & family archivist handles things. Oh, as FA, when someone dies I create the image collection. I search through, say "Thnksgvng 20xx" to find folks, then they get tagged. Those days are humbling.

I've got almost 30 years of digital images. Around 150K in my Lightroom catalog last time I looked. Up until 4 years ago, every photo had at least 1 keyword. It might be vague: "CA Trip June 2014" but it was something. Not sure why I stopped recently, but will catch up! Need to delete more. 1/2