Monday, October 19, 2009

Central image library update

Aside from a few minor glitches the new central image library using Bridge seems to work. I try and add anywhere from 500-2000 images every week or so -- and my efforts at being systematic has worked so far. It's just a matter of communicating the new uploads and also any old folders that need "re-indexing."

And speaking of re-indexing, based on what I've seen so far, I urge each person in our department to develop a plan to continually re-index the library -- and that seems to have removed a few obstacles to fully successful searches so far.

We have seven designers, and four writers accessing and searching the library.

The one thing that will take time is for each person to develop his or her own searching strategy -- in other words, what variation of search criteria works best for any given search. This continues to evolve since we will undoubtedly be adding to and modifying the keyword list over the coming months.