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Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info):Lightroom Classic version: 7.1 [ 1148620 ]
I know nearly everyone is tired of this but I want to run some ideas by the experts here and if you see any glaring issues or pitfalls I am blissfully unaware of please enlighten me.
In the massive reorganization of my keywording scheme I have realized that animals are a huge portion of my collection of personal images.
What I am doing is my top level has a group ANIMAL. Below that are keywords for basic animal families so while I do not totally follow the scientific nomenclature I am implementing it at least partially. Feline, Canine, Equine, Bovine and Ovine are all families and the keyword includes the scientific terminology as a synonym. Some groups are not as well defined, Reptile has snakes, lizards as keywords but turtles and tortoises are just in the Reptile group because I don't have many pictures of them. My thinking is that I only subdivide the group when there are too many photos in that group and I need it more finely divided. This is working for now but I'm concerned that it might become a problem as I start to include the thousands of pictures we are scanning from my parents, grandparents and so on. So that is the first question, should I populate the full tree even though only a few pictures are in the bottom leaf?
Another issue is that for many species the sexes and the age of the animal can change their noun. For example take the domestic sheep, there are rams (male), ewes (female), lambs (under 1 year of age), hogget (1-2 years of age), wether (castrated male) and so on. I originally had the sex/age keywords under the bottom level so domestic sheep (synonym Ovis aires) was documented as ANIMAL/Ovine/sheep/domestic_sheep/ and then several bottom level keywords Breed_BWMS, ewe, lamb, Desert_Weyr_Ginny, ram_lamb, Desert_Weyr_Wibbly, Desert_Weyr_Wobbly, Desert_Weyr_Webley which is the name of the ewe (Ginny) and her triplets, all ram lambs with their registered names as well as what breed they are (Black Welsh Mountain). I actually search for pictures of specific sheep so I treat many of them like humans with a full name included as a keyword.
The issue comes in when I now start adding pictures of bighorn sheep which are ANIMAL/Ovine/sheep/mountain_bighorn/ or ANIMAL/Ovine/sheep/desert_bighorn/ and then the same set of sex and age keywords. This can be confusing when I look at it.
I am considering placing an upper level tag called SEX_AGE and under it having all the various animal keywords that denote age and sex. ram, ewe lamb, ram_lamb, ewe_lamb, calf, cow, bull, heifer, gilt, sow, boar, piglet, foal, filly, mare, stallion, gelding, jenny, jack, buck, doe, kid, fawn, etc. etc. etc The male, female or castrate sex is a synonym in the above examples.
This will also men that as I start adding the zoo animal pictures I am not duplicating the sex/age keywords over and over for each species.
Related is the idea of multiple bottom level leaf words being attached to a single picture. It appears to be working well but I'm wondering if I am missing something that will come back to bite me when I have 100K pictures all cataloged (my current estimate of the total number of eventual images in the LR catalog).
I'm wondering if I am setting myself up for some other issues if I do this. I have only fully keyworded about 1000 pictures so now is the time to define the structure before I have gone too far into the project.
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info):Lightroom Classic version: 7.1 [ 1148620 ]
I know nearly everyone is tired of this but I want to run some ideas by the experts here and if you see any glaring issues or pitfalls I am blissfully unaware of please enlighten me.
In the massive reorganization of my keywording scheme I have realized that animals are a huge portion of my collection of personal images.
What I am doing is my top level has a group ANIMAL. Below that are keywords for basic animal families so while I do not totally follow the scientific nomenclature I am implementing it at least partially. Feline, Canine, Equine, Bovine and Ovine are all families and the keyword includes the scientific terminology as a synonym. Some groups are not as well defined, Reptile has snakes, lizards as keywords but turtles and tortoises are just in the Reptile group because I don't have many pictures of them. My thinking is that I only subdivide the group when there are too many photos in that group and I need it more finely divided. This is working for now but I'm concerned that it might become a problem as I start to include the thousands of pictures we are scanning from my parents, grandparents and so on. So that is the first question, should I populate the full tree even though only a few pictures are in the bottom leaf?
Another issue is that for many species the sexes and the age of the animal can change their noun. For example take the domestic sheep, there are rams (male), ewes (female), lambs (under 1 year of age), hogget (1-2 years of age), wether (castrated male) and so on. I originally had the sex/age keywords under the bottom level so domestic sheep (synonym Ovis aires) was documented as ANIMAL/Ovine/sheep/domestic_sheep/ and then several bottom level keywords Breed_BWMS, ewe, lamb, Desert_Weyr_Ginny, ram_lamb, Desert_Weyr_Wibbly, Desert_Weyr_Wobbly, Desert_Weyr_Webley which is the name of the ewe (Ginny) and her triplets, all ram lambs with their registered names as well as what breed they are (Black Welsh Mountain). I actually search for pictures of specific sheep so I treat many of them like humans with a full name included as a keyword.
The issue comes in when I now start adding pictures of bighorn sheep which are ANIMAL/Ovine/sheep/mountain_bighorn/ or ANIMAL/Ovine/sheep/desert_bighorn/ and then the same set of sex and age keywords. This can be confusing when I look at it.
I am considering placing an upper level tag called SEX_AGE and under it having all the various animal keywords that denote age and sex. ram, ewe lamb, ram_lamb, ewe_lamb, calf, cow, bull, heifer, gilt, sow, boar, piglet, foal, filly, mare, stallion, gelding, jenny, jack, buck, doe, kid, fawn, etc. etc. etc The male, female or castrate sex is a synonym in the above examples.
This will also men that as I start adding the zoo animal pictures I am not duplicating the sex/age keywords over and over for each species.
Related is the idea of multiple bottom level leaf words being attached to a single picture. It appears to be working well but I'm wondering if I am missing something that will come back to bite me when I have 100K pictures all cataloged (my current estimate of the total number of eventual images in the LR catalog).
I'm wondering if I am setting myself up for some other issues if I do this. I have only fully keyworded about 1000 pictures so now is the time to define the structure before I have gone too far into the project.