Hi Peter, > The thought is that they wouldn't mean anything to anybody in the 22nd > century unless I left some notes in each folder. I don't intend to > say what each photo was, but more the occasion of the photos. The > question is, what format should I use for these text files - Plain > Text
Plain text would last the longest. > ODT, or Microsoft word? If you want a word-processing format, use the Open Document Format for Office Applications, ODF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument#Application_support > Another alternative is to write it and save them as a PDF. There are different PDF versions. Pick one which has been standardised for long-term archiving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A The downside is others may find it less easy to augment the information over time. > The next thing is that I would like to take some of the large > gathering pictures and say who the people are. To me that seems to > mean sticking a letter or number on each person and saying who they > are in the attached text. Is there any better way? I am not skilled > at editing pictures. Do not edit the picture. Others will not thank you for losing the original pixels. The time-honoured way would be extra text: Pictured from left to right: back row: ...; middle row: ...; seated: ... If the pose is a bit of a melee then try to put them in rows anyway. If there are other pictures then any confusion can probably be sorted out by comparisons. More tediously, take a low-resolution thumbnail and blot an obvious capital letter on it, or ① ② ③, to mark each person. Or just a plain rectangle with the letters in the appropriate relative positions. An option is to alter the image's meta-data to include your simple plain-text ‘who's whom’ description so the two travel together in the future. But again, you may want to leave the original image pristine depending on whether it's already been mucked with or not. Plus, if there are other copies then creating derivatives means others are faced with multiple versions in time and have to pick or merge. Lastly, consider storing a digest of key files alongside them so you can trust they haven't changed, e.g. sha256sum *.jpeg >digest.sha256 sha256sum(1) and others have a ‘-c’ to check the digests. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-05-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
