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Parent / child relationship - a relationship created from one database record to several or many others. Such relationships are especially useful in digital asset management and digital media library systems, enabling for example the biographical details of an artist to be linked to all of the records of their works. The same sort of relationships can be used in many different ways to create rich content with multiple interlinking.
PDF - Portable Document Format. A propriety format developed by Adobe now widely accepted as a means of creating documents that can be read on any computer using the freely available Adobe Acrobat reader.
Photo archiving software - software for archiving digital photographs, with search and retrieval features. There are many ways in which photo archiving software can be described, but in the best systems all of the following are accommodated
- Photo asset management
- Photo asset management software
- Photo cataloging software
- Photo image library
- Photo library management
- Photo library management software
- Photo library manager
- Photo library online
- Photo library software - specifically for photographs, see online digital library and digital asset management system.
- Photo management
- Photo management programs
- Photo management software
- Photo management system
- Photo manager
- Photo manager software
- Photo managing software
- Photo managment software
- Photo organiser
- Photo organising software
- Photo organizer software
- Photo organizing software
- Photography management software
- Photos management software
- Picture database software
- Picture library software
- Picture library system
- Picture management
- Picture management system
- Picture managing software
Picture library management system - specifically for pictures, see online digital library and digital asset management system.
Picklist - a list of values (words and phrases) from which an entry for a metadata field can or must be taken. Allowing only the picklist to be used will ensure that data integrity is maintained.
Pixel - the smallest element of a computer screen display. Representation of a dot of RGB colour will use three pixels, one for each of R, G & B.
Product image library- an image library specifcally used for images of products on retail, wholesale or internal websites.