Links and Resources mentioned in the book
(and more)
Image Browsing Software
- Photo Mechanic, for image browsing by folder, rating, color-tagging, metadata entry; no image editing
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, for all of the above with image editing and cataloguing
- Adobe Bridge, Photoshop’s image browser, with rating and metadata capabilites
- Aperture, Apple’s professional-grade image browsing, cataloguing and image editing software
- iPhoto, Apple’s consumer-grade image browsing, cataloguing and image editing software
- Picasa, Google’s free image browsing, tagging, rating and editing software for Windows and Mac
Backup Software
Mac OnlyMac and Windows
Windows Only
Storage
- Drobo, redundant storage that is incrementally upgradable
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
- LaCie
- Maxtor (owned by Seagate Technology)
- Seagate Technology
- Western Digital
Online Backup and Storage
Mac OnlyMac and Windows
Online Printing Services
- Fotki
- Kodak Gallery
- Mpix
- Photobucket
- PhotoWork
- Shutterfly
- SmugMug
- Snapfish
- Wal-Mart photo center
- Winkflash
Online Photo Book Services
Renaming Software
Mac OnlyWindows Only
General Software/Accessories
- DiskAid, a way to transfer photos from you iPhone to a year and month filing structure
- Eye-Fi, wireless transfer of photos from your camera, with geotagging options
Digital Photo Organizing / Asset Management Websites and Books
- The DAM Book digital asset management for photographers, by Peter Krogh
Digital Photography Information and Other General Digital Info
- Digital Photography Review news, reviews and information about digital photography and digital imaging printing and color advice
- Wilhelm Imaging Research research on stability and preservation of digital color photographs
- The Digital Story, weekly digital photo podcasts, photo tips, equipment reviews
Digital Preservation
- Library of Congress national digital information infrastructure and preservation program
- National Archives initiatives on digital photographic records
- UPDIG universal photographic digital imaging guidelines
Copyright
- The American Library Association has a digital slider by which you can select your date and the website will tell you about the copyright terms for that date
- Lolly Gasaway, professor of law and associate dean for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina, keeps a website called, “When U.S. Works Pass Into the Public Domain”
- The U.S. Copyright Office explains copyright duration here
Time
- “A Walk Through Time: The Evolution of Time Measurement Through the Ages,” presented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology physics laboratory
- The Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory
- The U.S.Naval Observatory Time Service Department
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology Time and Frequency Division, where they really take it down to nanoseconds
- Greenwich Mean Time, all about where time starts
- The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), European-oriented time information
- The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, an organization that helps keep things on time when the vibrating cesium atoms of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain atomic clock at the NIST get out of whack with earth time; They keep tabs on earth rotation in relation to other celestial bodies and advise on when to add leap seconds to our official time
Camera Obscura
- Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, every April
Origins
- The First Photograph, kept at the Harry Ransom Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin