For a photo of one creature, I manually tag only a taxon as the ID and a locality name, just two tags. The taxonomy hierarchy contains both common names and scientific names so that manually tagging one auto-tags the other. Photo tags: I use Lightroom with keyword hierarchies set up for geography and taxonomy. When my camera image counter flips from 9999 to 0001, the files sorted by filename still sort by date taken. A free app called Bulk Rename Utility makes this easy. Folders with this date format sorted by folder name naturally sort by date.įilenames: I prepend a YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS timestamp of date taken in the local time zone to each file originally named by my camera like IMG_3952.CR2, resulting in a filename like -14-35-36_IMG_3952.CR2. If you’ve got some programming skills, I can thoroughly recommend this as a long-term hobby project.įolders: Date and location, e.g., Patuxent Ponds Park. It started off quite simple, but I’ve gradually added more and more features, so I can now do almost everything I want through a single interface (editing, annotating, taxon searches, uploading, etc). It’s only a few megabytes, but when I consider how much time I’ve invested in maintaining it, that database is probably now worth more to me than the majority of my entire photo collection…Īs to the programs I use: I wasn’t able to find anything that did everything I wanted, so I wrote my own. ![]() It also means I can back it up separately (and regularly). This makes searches and updates super-fast, and it’s very easy to re-organise the information whenever I need to. So I now keep all the extra information in a separate database. When I first started, I used the photo metadata to add extra information like geodata, locality, taxon, etc - but I soon found that performing complex searches or large updates could become very slow. All my photos are organised by year, month-day, and time - for example 2019/06-25/11.53.28.000.jpg.
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