Message-Id: <199912142347.QAA31412@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:42:08 -0800 From: Susan Grinols <mailto:sgrinols@famsf.org> Subject: Re: File Naming Conventions To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Hi,We here at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have a database of over 70,000 images, which are all scanned to CD. We use the unique 12 digit CD number assigned by Kodak plus the 4 digit frame number to name our image files on our server. That number is posted on the image's record in our database which also contains the accession number and other information.
I understand your colleague is limited by the number of characters she can use, so this method might not work for her since it's the 12 digit name in its entirety that's unique, and not portions of it.
If she'd like to contact me directly, she's welcome to.
Sue Grinols mailto:sgrinols@famsf.org www.thinker.org
"SC_Stuart (Stuart Hinds)" wrote: >
> I am posting this to the list for a colleague. She works in an art museum,
> and is embarking on a digitization project. Her quandry involves naming the
> electronic files associated with different scanned views of the same object.
> I work in a library, and the materials we scanned (images.kclibrary.org)
> were unique unto themselves, thus I didn't have to deal multiple views of
> the same object. I believe she's going with CD-ROM for storage purposes,
> and thus is limited to 8 characters as a file name (the original accession
> numbers for the objects often run longer than that).
>
> Any suggestions, tips, etc.?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Stuart Hinds
> Special Collections Librarian
> Kansas City Public Library
> 311 E. 12th Street
> Kansas City, MO 64106
> 816/701-3400 x2111
> mailto:sc_stuart@kclibrary.org