Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Naming convention

I had been thinking about how to name the files for the images. I was worrying about name collisions and having people name them consistently. I came up with the idea of fixed name files for the type and having a directory with the sequence number. Now I don't have to have a name, they are all fixed.

I have a directory named image. Under that I have one named project. That is because there might be images of stuff other than the projects. Under there I have two directories, clinic and school. Those are the two project types I am focusing on right now. Under those I have a directory for each project. It is named the sequence number of the project. In that directory I have the specific files. map for a map, sat for a satellite image, proj for a picture of the project from the outside, broch for a scanned image of the brochure that is printed when the project is dedicated. I will add tags on the end when I need larger or smaller images.