Building the (Data) Base

Organize the Past
If there is a large volume of legacy digital assets that are either not currently digitized—or are digitized, but the data associated with them is not—don't get bogged down with the sheer volume of the past. The best asset management strategy may be to organize everything from today forward. If it will take weeks or months to scan and enter the relevant data from the last 10 years, either don't catalog it, or plan a way to add older assets in reverse order, from present to past, as time and resources permit.