From the course: Hard Drive Management for Creative Pros
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Metadata vs. folders
From the course: Hard Drive Management for Creative Pros
Metadata vs. folders
- Metadata versus folder structure. Computer versus human. There's an argument now in the computer community that says, gosh, all you have to do is put all of your data in one place and let the computer sort it out. Kind of sound likes a Marine motto I heard once upon a time. The problem is that we as human beings have a really difficult time of trusting the computer to do everything. I mean it can and it does a very good job of sorting, that's one of the best things that it can do. The problem is we feel uneasy with it, so there becomes a battle between folders and metadata. Let's talk about those. Metadata defined is data or information added to a file after its creation. Meta literally means after. When a file is created in a camera, and since I'm a professional photographer, I'm going to use that example, it's also true of a Word document, a motion picture, or a sound file. iTunes is a great example. All of the information that you have about a song is all data that is added after…
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