Message-Id: <200106181450.HAA17206@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:43:13 -0400 From: Robert Baron <mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM> Subject: Re: Image file naming conventions To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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At 09:36 AM 6/18/2001 -0400, Anthony Troncale wrote:
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>Jill:
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>Sounds to me like you should use your accession number as the file name,
>followed by an alpha indicator which designates the file type (Archival,
>Service, Reference, Thumbnail)
>123456a.tif
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>You might also look at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april96/loc/04c-arms.html
>There is a section on Naming Schemes that is worth looking at.
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>Good luck with your project.
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>Anthony Troncale
>American Museum of Natural History
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>At 12:10 PM 6/18/01 +1000, you wrote:
>>Hello Imagelib
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>>I am interested in experience people may have had naming their digital
>>image files. I just tried to search the archives but I just got the
>>"Imagelib filelist" by date.
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>>Could someone please tell me how to search the archive by subject, or pass
>>on the benefit of your experience directly if appropriate. We are just
>>about to start digitising our slide collection (100,000 slides). The slides
>>are already on a 4D database and each has a unique 6 digit accession
>>number. We'll be saving them as TIFF files for archival purposes but as
>>JPEGs for everyday use.
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>>I am sure there are all sorts of issues to be considered, and that these
>>have been discussed. Just need help to find to find it!
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>>Thanks
>>Jill More
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Using the accession number as a file name seems to me like a poor idea.
During the course of the history of objects many photographs will have been
made and collected -- different views, conservation images, different
lighting and recording media. Clearly what is needed is a link from the
collection catalogue database to a variety of images, each suitably
described. In my view, documentary photographs are much like acquired
objects and need an acquisition number and an acquisition catalogue of
their own. If each photograph has its own acquisition number (preferably
serially assigned), then use that. But don't assume that there is a
one-to-one relationship that ties objects to images.
Robt Baron
mailto:robert@studiolo.org
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