Natasha says:  "In my opinion, their plan is doomed to fail. They are 
unable to sort and 
group the photographs properly, and no search engine (however powerful) 
will 
replace good classification scheme. After spending big dollars they might 
end up with the ECM-enhanced chaos instead of a simple one."

We have done just what Bill has recommended.  However, a good photo 
library should have a combination of both items.  A good classification 
scheme so users can search for and find their photo's in a hierarchal 
view. As well, metadata is assigned to templates on each photo so searches 
can be performed across each field of that template. 

The other thing we have done is to create a separate volume for the 
photo's so that if at some point in time, we wanted to move the photo's to 
another server, we could pick them up enmasse and easily move them. 


John Annunziello
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Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
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