Naming conventions for all files

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Revision as of 23:48, 17 November 2006

All prepped media should conform to the following conventions: Each piece will be lowercase, and not spaced. There will be 5 sections that will be designated by the first 4 letters then followed by an underscore:

   * Student Galleries: stud_
   * Alumni: alum_
   * Faculty: facu_
   * Course Content: cour_
   * Global Navigation: glob_

This will be followed by a subsection, the subsections will consist of the majors and will be designated by the first letter of the major, and there are four majors:

   * General: g
   * Integrated Media: i
   * Journalism: j
   * Film Studies: f

This will be followed by a serial number in case there are more than one of each object:

   * 01
   * 02
   * 03

The serial number will be followed by an extension of the file type. The extensions are defined the limited number of media files we will be accepting and using:

   * Images: .jpg .gif
   * Videos: .flv
   * Audio: .mp3
   * Text/Html: .txt .html
   * Flash: .swf

Examples using the naming conventions:

The last example is of pre-production files, that is files that are given to us by someone else. We are going to save them using the same relative conventions, except where we have a serial number you will add a "_v" before it ( stud_g_v01.jpg) . The V is for version, so all pre-prepped files are the early versions, this way we can still use the same naming conventions with little difficulty in the changover from pre-proudciton files to production ones.

We also need to designate which files are thumbnails vs. full size images. We will use a th_ before all images that are thumbnails so before you ever look at the rest of the name, you know you are dealing with a thumbnail. This will affect the file name as such: th_stud_01.jpg. This will also be reflected in out pre-production files which will look like: th_stud_g_v01.jpg

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