Archivist/Photographer question: My Dad, who was a professional photographer for 50 years, has moved into a memory care facility. I'm trying to organize his catalog. For photographers with 1TB+ of photos, do you use a system? Archivists same question. I may build a sqlite application to identify images by keywords but flat file system isn't going to work. Could be by date? by subject? by something else? Storage is a 2TB NVME SSD in USB-3.0 adapter.
@ChuckMcManis There's no great answer here as far as I can tell. Lightroom and Capture One have great labeling capability, but they lock you into a proprietary infrastructure that might disappear at any random time.
Personally, I use Capture One, but I also have a naming convention for my finished images that includes essential metadata (raw file name, date, keywords, etc). So I can always fall back on the file system for search.
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