{"id":20112,"date":"2022-04-25T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teamnext.de\/blog\/how-can-i-build-my-own-image-database\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:33:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:33:09","slug":"how-can-i-build-my-own-image-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamnext.de\/en\/blog\/how-can-i-build-my-own-image-database\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I build my own image database?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How can I build my own image database?<\/h1>\n

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Nowadays, a professional image database is a necessary purchase not only for photographers and media companies. In more and more companies, organizations and institutions, marketing, sales and public relations teams face the challenge that the number of digital images has grown exponentially over the past two decades. Often, image inventories quickly exceed several thousand, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of images. Therefore, it makes absolute sense to deal intensively with the question of how to build up your own image or photo database in order to find the right motif quickly and easily in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Five reasons to build your own image database:<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section>
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  1. Relief of employees (time, resources, legal requirements)<\/li>\n
  2. Facilitated compliance with legal requirements (e.g. copyrights, personal releases, data protection requirements)<\/li>\n
  3. Use synergy effects (e.g. no duplicate purchases of images)<\/li>\n
  4. Improved quality of public relations and marketing<\/li>\n
  5. Increase the return on investment (ROI) of digital images<\/a> or media files<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/section>
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    What is the difference between a folder-based filing structure and an image database?<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section>
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    Many organizations have filed and stored their images on classic media drives in a (sometimes complex) folder structure. When organizing images in a folder structure, however, you quickly reach the limits of what is possible when trying to assign images to multiple topics. For example, a picture of a sporting event might capture a player, a sponsor logo, and an emotion. If I want to add this information to the image, I have few options in a one-dimensional folder structure.<\/p>\n

    Option A: I create three folders (player, sponsor and emotion) and place a copy of the image in each folder.<\/p>\n

    Option B: I create a folder and keep the information in the folder or file name<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Neither option A nor option B are structurally sound alternatives, since you either create masses of duplicates or you end up with a confusing and poorly searchable file structure.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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    So what might an alternative look like in the form of a professional image database?<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section>
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    When setting up your own image database, it is important to first familiarize yourself with the technical possibilities of a professional image management. Unlike working with a one-dimensional folder structure, such a solution offers you numerous possibilities to link your images with supplementary information.<\/p>\n

    Examples of a multidimensional data structure of an image database:<\/p>\n