Dave, You might want to call on your neighbors at the New Zealand Digital Library. They've developed some FREE open source software called Greenstone Digital Library. It's pretty much ready to use if you use default standards like Dublin Core, etc. There's a fairly active development community to turn to for help if you need it. http://www.greenstone.org Cheers, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Richard Urban Operations Coordinator Collaborative Digitization Program http://www.cdpheritage.org <http://www.cdpheritage.org/> [log in to unmask] (303) 871-2006 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _____ From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 8:54 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: re cataloguing digital photographs Greetings to all from Australia- I am currently webmaster/photographer for a community cycling group. Although we have only been in existence for one year our archive of photographs is growing rapidly. One of our primary reasons for existence is advocacy liasing with local and state Government bodies for cycling facilities. Already I am often being asked to provide photographs of previous activities for media and various Government agencies and I need to set up a database now to facilitate tracking photographs before I get overwhelmed with the material. Our budget is limited and we use existing members' facilities for most operations so I wish to use MS Access (or Excel if that is considered better) which are already loaded on my desktop and laptop comps. I would appreciate suggestions for catgeories to index by; any online references- any information which might help. My tertiary training is in education, music and (some) technology- not archiving!! So all suggestions gratefully received. cheers Dave McLeod Hervey Bay Queensland AUSTRALIA <http://www.herveybaybug.premierhost.com.au/> http://www.herveybaybug.premierhost.com.au/ A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>