This webinar will help you think strategically about archiving assets at the end of their lifecycle.
What you’ll learn:
- Setting a company archiving strategy
- What, when, how much to archive
- The cost of archiving today
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This slideshow is part of a "Creative Operations Essentials" webinar series brought to you by Globaledit, the online SaaS platform that empowers creative professionals to manage visual production at scale. You can CAPTURE, REVIEW, APPROVE, MARKUP, SHARE, ARCHIVE your digital files all within Globaledit.
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3. About globaledit
Globaledit is the online SaaS platform that empowers
creative professionals to manage visual production at
scale.!
CAPTURE. REVIEW. APPROVE. MARKUP. SHARE.
ARCHIVE. All within globaledit.!
www.globaledit.com!
4. Overview
• What is archiving?!
• Why archive?!
• How do you do it?!
• Best practices!
• Q & A!
8. Archiving vs. Backups
Archive:!
a collection used for long term retention!
http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/tip/Backup-vs-archive!
Backup:!
a copy used to restore the original in
cases of emergency or destruction!
13. Ask yourself…
Strategic/business questions!
• Do you expect to reuse old content? !
• How quickly do you need access to it?!
• Where is your business going? What does your
content strategy look like?!
• Is the content sensitive in nature? Are there
model rights or expiration dates?!
14. Ask yourself…
Technical questions!
• How much content do you have (# of files and total file
size)?!
• How much of your content is physical versus digital?!
• Where is your content now? !
• What type of content do you have? !
• Are there any formats that will become obsolete or
require proprietary/legacy applications?!
• Who needs access? Where are they in the world?!
16. 7 Best Practices
1. Build a business case!
2. Create a company archiving process/workflow!
3. Build an intuitive & relevant folder structure!
4. Define how much is enough, how little is not
enough!
17. 7 Best Practices
5. Metadata, metadata, metadata!
6. Create standards for file types and applications!
7. Discuss redundancy and backups*!
19. Archiving – how do I do it?
Define and standardize…!
• File naming convention!
• Folder structure!
• Metadata!
• Process!
• Commitment!
20. Archiving – how do I do it?
Decide where it goes!
• Tape!
• DAM!
• Cold storage!
• globaledit!
21. Demo of globaledit
• Archive files/folders!
• Searchable, flexible library of archived content!
• Archive to Amazon Glacier!
• Inexpensive long term storage!