Imaging Standards For Scans

http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/

Well, there it is. We look and work and study and now there is a standard for digitizing images. 
We all know that all photography, image treatments and protocols are ultimately idiosyncratic, but here is a good starting point. You will create your own standards and work your own system.
Depending on where you are going with your images - the internet, print or publication, these are the guidelines that have been established by the government for LOC and other agency work.
I do hope you make use of the huge repository of images owned by our government. There is just so much ... ... and you didn't really think that your Kodak Carousels, shoe boxes and Zip drives were the only places that images had piled up.
We have not had a cold winter day in a long time to catch up on organization ... but the Olympics are over, school has not yet started and the negatives and slides won't process themselves. PLUS - you might need to tend to the downloaded digital files and the ones that might be on a memory card or 4.