I am looking for suggestions and examples of how to organize digital images.  
Our institution over the past few years has accumulated, in no systemactic 
order, a large number of digital images of objects, photographs, and archival 
materials.  The files are currently housed on the server, in an assortment of 
folders.  I would like to remove these images from the server and burn them on 
to CD's/DVD's with a system set in place to to be able search and determine if 
a digital image has been made and retrieve it rather easily. I want this system 
to also help organize future digital images which are created. 

In addition to setting up a system, are digital images saved as Tiff, jpeg, or 
another file type?  What DPI?  Are several sizes of the image saved or just 
one?  

We currently PastPerfect 4 and can attach images, and maybe that is the 
easiest method.  But, I know we are not the only institution who has 
accumulated digital images, and I'm interested to hear how other institutions 
have delt with this. 

Thank-you, 

Shannon Lindridge, Collections Manager
Tha History Center in Tompkins County
Ithaca, NY 14850

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