Dear Danielle: I have a detailed document for our file naming conventions that I'm happy to send along (I'd post it here, but everything's outlined in table format and won't work for copying and pasting). Likewise, if anyone else is interested in taking a look, I'll gladly forward it to you as well. Please respond to me individually.
Funnily enough, I was just about to draft up a file naming standards document and post it online. Other than some of the inherent difficulties with trying to align the digital filenames with the accession number (particularly when you don't have an accession number yet), what are some other arguments in favor of using a unique identifier instead of the accession number? ~P Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes Berkeley, CA -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Images Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:03 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/
