Tag Archive: files

How to give file names to your photos

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-06-08T21:02:14Z in Library Science, Photography Articles, with these tags: dam, exif, files, internet, librarianship, metadata, theory, time, uris, 5 Comments. 4,541 words.

This is a lengthy post (~4500 words). I cover file names in great detail, but go much further into the differences between a literal and abstract asset management system (descriptive file names vs. not), spend many paragraphs debunking time zones, daylight time, traditional date formatting, and use 500 words to debate underscores vs. hyphens vs. spaces to break up words in your web addresses. The implications go way beyond mere file names. Read on if you’re in for a adventure . . .

I don’t like that all the articles I read on organizing your photos recommend giving them descriptive file …