Naming conventions for all files

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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:
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All prepped media should conform to the following conventions: Each piece will be lowercase, and will not contain spaces. There will be 5 sections - designated by the first 4 letters then followed by an underscore:
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Example:
     * Student Galleries: stud_
     * Student Galleries: stud_
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     * Global Navigation: glob_
     * Global Navigation: glob_
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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:
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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.
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Example:
     * General: g
     * General: g
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This will be followed by a serial number in case there are more than one of each object:
This will be followed by a serial number in case there are more than one of each object:
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     * 01
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     * 03
     * 03
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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:
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The serial number will be followed by the standard extension for that type of file type.
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Example:
     * Images: .jpg .gif
     * Images: .jpg .gif
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[[Image: Table.gif]]
[[Image: Table.gif]]
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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.
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The last example is of pre-production files (files that are given to us by someone else).  They will be saved using the same relative conventions, except that the serial number will be followed by a version number (.ie  stud_g_01_v01.jpg).  
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Thumbnails will be saved with a “th_” proceeding the file name in order to distinguish them from their full size version (ie th_stud_01.jpg.) 
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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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Revision as of 19:05, 20 November 2006

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

Example: 

   * 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.

Example: 

   * 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:

Example: 

   * 01
   * 02
   * 03

The serial number will be followed by the standard extension for that type of file type.

Example: 

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

Examples using the naming conventions:

Image: Table.gif

The last example is of pre-production files (files that are given to us by someone else). They will be saved using the same relative conventions, except that the serial number will be followed by a version number (.ie stud_g_01_v01.jpg).

Thumbnails will be saved with a “th_” proceeding the file name in order to distinguish them from their full size version (ie th_stud_01.jpg.)


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