Here are some guidelines for how to name, and save, the files you will be creating (sound, image, and text) and uploading into the digital archive. Each record in the archive has its own unique handle which refers to the file uploaded plus the metadata attached to it. This handle should be used when referring to specific archive entries. However, each digital file that you upload should also be thought of as its own unique object and we need to make sure that each file has a non-duplicated name that locates it within our collection as well as the FDA.
Filename guidelines:
1. Filenames should not include spaces and should only include lowercase alphabetical characters and numbers and dashs (-).
2. All file names should start with the letters DSNYM (DSNY Museum)
3. Then each item has it's own unique number which is the date you made the object followed by your initial (e.g -20070919-HG)
4. If an item is double sided you append "-r" for recto and "-v" for verso.
5. If the item is one of a series make sure you number the series
6. Make sure that the file extension is appended e.g .tif (for images), .wav (for sound files), .doc or .rtf for text files or .pdf.
WE WILL ONLY USE TIFF (IMAGES) AND WAV (SOUND) file formats to upload to the archive (and JPEGs for the blog).
So - an image (right side up)
DSNYM-HG9192007-01-r.tif
Or an image as part of a series of digital objects you created that day:
DSNYM-20070919-HG-01.tif
DSNYM-20070919-HG-02.tif
Please just add your initials in brackets to after your name in you post for the blog (ignoring middle names unless two of you have the same two initials) e.g.
Alex Starace (AS) so we can keep track of who is who.