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I'm about to undertake a long delayed project. It's the scanning of many slides and film. My challenge is determining the naming convention to use.
With my digital camera images it's easy; YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.*. I have none of that information on a lot of images I want to scan. I can't even guess what it could be.
My thought presenting is to use a format of X-BBB-NNN.* where:
I would use METADATA and keywording to attach that information to the scan. I can identify location, people, buildings etc and even guess at ages.
From Googling, I know others have attempted to solving this but mostly by file naming. I believe metadata branding will help me in the log run.
Looking to see what others have tried.
Thanks
With my digital camera images it's easy; YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.*. I have none of that information on a lot of images I want to scan. I can't even guess what it could be.
My thought presenting is to use a format of X-BBB-NNN.* where:
- X is the type of source - S=Slide,F=Film,P=Picture
- BBB is the batch number. Most of the slides and films are together that could be labelled.
- NNN is a sequence number n the batch.
I would use METADATA and keywording to attach that information to the scan. I can identify location, people, buildings etc and even guess at ages.
From Googling, I know others have attempted to solving this but mostly by file naming. I believe metadata branding will help me in the log run.
Looking to see what others have tried.
Thanks