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Re: [PAF] Multimedia files organization
Thank you Cheryl and Dave for your comments. Here are my thoughts on your
comments and I am still looking for more comments.
I feel that disk space is cheap enough that I can include scanned in images,
yet keep hard copies. This has the advantages of both worlds. At this point,
my options seem to be the following:
1) No soft copy of many things (Cheryl)
2) Everything in one directory
3) Directories divided up by surname (actual surname or soundex?)
4) Directories divided up by image type (photographs, birth certificates,
marriage certificates, etc.)
Then after the directory, come up with a filename format that contains the
following elements:
1) Individual or family (marriage identification)
a) RIN or MRIN (Dave and actually is what I am currently doing. However,
the thing that I am concerned about is if during merges or anything else,
the RIN/MRIN changes. Also, this may not make any sense to anyone else).
Family information would probably be stored with a MRIN.
b) Surname and/or firstname (either actual or soundex)
2) Image type. Such as photo, birth/marriage/death certificate, social
security application, immigration/naturalization record, etc.
Any thoughts??? Yes, I am trying to get more response from this.
Thank, Thomas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Singhal" <csinghal@CapAccess.org>
To: "Thomas B. Lerman" <Thomas_Lerman@yahoo.com>; <PAF@innernet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 1973 06:58
Subject: Re: [PAF] Multimedia files organization
> Sorry, I don't know what happened last time
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 1973, Cheryl Singhal wrote:
> >
> > The voice of VERY bitter experience speaks here: Do not EVER under ANY
> > circumstances have two files with the same name on the same (a) floppy
(b)
> > tape (c) ZIP (d) physical hard drive or (e) CD. I don't care how
> > carefully constructed your directory structure is, or how many virtual
> > partitions on the physical drive, sooner or later, something will go
> > wrong and mom2.tiff from C:\paf5\data\Smith\images\ will try to
> > cross-breed with mom2.tiff from d:\images\Westkov\Summer99\ Or the
> > computer in its infinite wisdom will arbitrarily decide these are the
> > same files and dele one of 'em.
> >
> > That said, and dropping in to visit the unparanoid world (g), you'll
> > find that an image of a birth certificate large enough and at high
enough
> > res to be legible scarfs up incredible amts of space in the "best"
> > format. Even in the lossy jpeg format, you can fill a 10G HD in a week
or so.
> > Additionally, there's the tech issue of longevity and data migration ...
> > paper copies haven't changed much in the past 40 years; digital copies
> > have changed in the past 40 days, certainly during the past 40 wks at
the
> > consumer level. So unless you'll willing to spend a significant chunk
of
> > your time over the course of a year moving images from this format to
> > that, or this media to that, you will one day in the not too distant
> > future wake up to discover that there's only one place in the state
where
> > you can convert a .pxl file to a .gif and they're charging $20 per file
> > -- but no, we can't handle a CDR we need it on (insert media here), and
> > the Other Company on the other side of the state can copy your CDR onto
> > (other media) for only $15 a CD.
> >
> > Or your HD has a head crash. Before you commit too much to your HD,
> > price data-recovery for it. As a starting point, a few yrs ago our
son's
> > 2.1G HD was just shy of the biggest one on the market; he had a head
> > crash; LOW estimate was $1500 even if the disc proved unrecoverable.
> > Mind, now that's the only (knock wood!) head crash we've had on any of
> > our computers since 1986, but it's still a lot of money.
> >
> > I like hard copy. (g)
> >
> > Cheryl
> >
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hinz" <dhinz@execpc.com>
To: <paf@innernet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 06:14
Subject: Re: [PAF] Multimedia files organization
>
>
> > "Thomas B. Lerman" wrote:
> >
> > I am about to start scanning in things that I am just starting to get.
> > Before doing so, I would like to get experienced opinions on how to
> > organize the images.
>
> Hi, Thomas & List.
>
> What I've started to do, after struggling doing it by surnames
> as you mentioned, is to tag the item by the RIN or the MRIN of
> the (person or marriage). This covers individuals, as they all
> have an RIN in my database, it covers wedding photos as that's
> the MRIN, it covers single-family photos (mom, dad, & kids),
> as I put that under the MRIN of the parents.
>
> This system doesn't work when you have a picture of several families
> together, so I have a few called "Hinz gathering", "Christiansen
> gathering",
> etc. Or, "Hinz/Kobs gathering".
>
> I've found it to be reasonably succesful, but would also welcome
> reading about others' ways of doing this. There doesn't seem to be
> any one way to do it which is "best", so it always helps to pick and
> choose.
>
> Dave Hinz
> http://www.davehinz.com/genealogy/
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas B. Lerman
To: PAF@innernet.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 00:10
Subject: [PAF] Multimedia files organization
I am about to start scanning in things that I am just starting to get.
Before doing so, I would like to get experienced opinions on how to organize
the images. Obviously, I will have photos, but I will also be scanning in
birth/marriage/death certificates, census sheets, immigration/naturalization
records, social security applications, and anything else I can get my hands
on. Obviously, some things (especially photos) can span across surnames. I
can think of several ways to organize it all, but like I said, I would like
some opinions so that I can learn the best way to do it. My question is:
what the best method or organizing the images . . . both directory and file
name??? I am using PAF5 on a Windows environment. You help is greatly
appreciated.
Thomas
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