How many catalogs belong in a digital asset management system?

By
Edward Smith
– December 15, 2011Posted in: Street Smarts Feed

If you’ve already read our series on “How many catalogs?” (Post 1 and Post 2), be sure to also head over to dpBestflow and read Peter Krogh’s article about catalog best practices:

Catalog Strategies

Peter shares my view that “if all your photos can fit in a single catalog, workflow is much more straightforward” but provides great advice and strategies for splitting up file collections into more than one catalog.

For a refresher on why you might want to split things up into more than one catalog, check out
How many catalogs? Part 2 which goes over exceptions to the “less is more” rule regarding the number of catalogs in a DAM.

Other Related Posts:

  1. How many catalogs? Part 1
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About Edward Smith

Edward Smith has a background as a Mac OS X and Windows system engineer, technical trainer, and DAM consultant. In his current position at Extensis, Smith is the in-house expert for all things digital asset management related and contributor to the DAM Learning Center. Edward often conducts customer training sessions, including product implementation tutorials and presentations at relevant conferences including Macworld Expo and the Extensis DAM conferences. You can contact Edward via Twitter or his Google+ profile.