My Brother agrees:
Plain Text,
and addressing people by position in row.
Though my other brother says that XnView is simple to add numbers on people,
which I remember from when I used microsoft.
Peter
Thanks for your thoughts.
On 22/04/2024 12:47, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
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.
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