We stumbled across this problem while starting up a digitization project a few years ago, and settled on using underscores. 1999_30_4.jpg It's been working fine, and we've continued to use it for anything that comes along, maps, manuscripts, etc. For objects that have several different views, we just tack 'dt#' at the end for 'detail' - 1999_30_4dt1, 1999_30_4dt2, etc. The only problem I've ever found is that typing the underscore can be a pain when going fast. Possibly a hyphen could work instead? 1999-30-4.
Diane. ========================================== Diane Lee, Collections Manager ? 860-236-5621 x242 Connecticut Historical Society -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Images Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:03 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] image file names We're reviewing how we name our image files and I'm hoping that some of you may have worked through this same issue. Currently, we use our accession number, however as this contains periods it has been identified as potentially problematic. For example, accession # 42.3.11 = VAG-42.3.11.jpg. One suggestion is to change the decimals to zeros but we are concerned that this makes the image file name difficult to read. Have any of you found a good solution to a problem like this? Any thoughts or samples of your naming structure would be most appreciated! thanks very much Danielle _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
