Useing laptop to work on files

Please help
I store my libary and vault on seperate external drives in case of failure.
I also use laptop and workstation. Is there a way I can keep a libary on my laptop in a cut down form so to show and work on pics without all the details to keep workspace to a minimum. I plan to travel soon nad have a 160g lacie ext drive, but with raw this seems to fill up so quickly. the laptop has 54g left so not a lot of room. Should I be looking at referenced files, not to sure how this works.
Many thanks

It might help to divide this into two goals:
1. how to travel with a "cut down" version of the home library.
2. how to import and backup new files while travelling.
2. is easier to achieve - Aperture on the laptop, import new files into that 54g of int. HD space, and use your firewire external as a travelling vault. Always carry the vault in your pocket.
1. If you want to display photos from your home library with onscreen slide shows (to share them while travelling), you could export jpegs of those images from your home library and make a separate Aperture library from those. That jpeg library should be small enough to keep in your laptop internal drive. But it seems like you would lose some organization from your home library - projects and albums and maybe metadata if you are not careful. You could export using this plugin:
http://www.lightboxsoftware.com/aperture/
which allows you to export xmp information beyond what Aperture alone allows. Might help preserve the metadata.
I don't know how to work on those jpeg images while travelling and transfer that work back to your home library. But you would probably be working on your newer images anyway. That work you can save. Any new images you shoot on the road should be imported into their own separate project. Then when home after travelling, transfer that project to your home machine and import it into your home library.

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