Message-Id: <mailto:199604030723.BAA12286@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:31:00 EET From: "START, Rodney" <mailto:RSTART@MOV.VIC.GOV.AU> Subject: Numbering of negative strips To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
We are about to begin to database and image capture our backlog of 20 years worth of negatives. We have a problem that the images in our Photographic Dept. have no numbering sequence what so ever. A large proportion of our images are strips of 35mm and 6x7cm negatives. Does anyone have a good system of numbering strips of images?We have come up with two ideas for numbering negative strips. Our first idea is to number each frame that we capture with a sequential number, we do not plan to capture every image on the strip. Our second idea was to use a location number for each image, ie the number of the sheet followed by the strip number followed by the frame position number. The number may look like this for example 230/4/3. Each sheet would be numbered, then each strip would be uniquely numbered sequentially on the bags with the same number stuck or written onto the edge of the strip, and the frame position number would go from left to right.
I look forward to hearing your responses.
Rodney Start Image Capture unit Museum Of Victoria, Australia email: mailto:rstart@mov.vic.gov.au