Building the (Data) Base

Looking to bolster that database? Again, do some housekeeping. Preparation is the key to a successful start to building a database.

Catalog all Compacts
If a large collection of commercial stock photography is on CD, make a master catalog of all of it. Almost every commercial stock CD contains some sort of program to index it, but if the user has to insert each CD to see what it contains, that doesn't help much. If the CD already has a catalog on it, the user can copy records to a master catalog without the need to recatalog. This process will preserve the key wording and other content vendor data. If the CDs have no index, the user should catalog the images folders into the master catalog.