Hi Chad,
The Smithsonian American Art Museum names its images files this way:
Accession Number_1a.jpg
where the 1 means the primary image and the a is the image size. When additional images are added to the record, we use _2a, etc.
I do not know what the standards for image resolution are.
Mary Ellen Guerra
Collection Database Administrator
Research and Scholars Center
Smithsonian American Art Museum
MRC970
750 Ninth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC20001-4505
Tel: 202-633-8338
From: The Museum
System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chad Petrovay
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:00
PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Image Standards and
Naming Conventions
The Walters Art Museum is undertaking a digitization project to coincide with our transition to TMS. However, we are currently stalling in the area of policy making governing how information is entered, and in particular, how images are named.
Can anyone share the naming convention their institution has adopted for digital image assets, or the standards for image resolution that they are using?
Many Thanks! ~Chad
Chad M Petrovay
Collections Database Administrator
The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210
P: 410.547.9000 x266
F: 410.837.4846
Exhibitions:
Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt on view June 15 - August 26
Linda Day Clark: The Gee's Bend Photographs on view June 15 - September 2