diglib: file naming conventions

[Carol Hixson <chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

We've been having some discussions recently in
MDLS about appropriate file names and making some
changes to some file names used for our digital collections.
We often deal with files created by different units
and the file names are sometimes problematic.

The MSU Guidelines provide some guidance on
FOLDER naming conventions for folders on the
MSU. Those state:


"The project manager creates the name for the folder
following the guidelines that the name should:
   * Reflect the content of the project.
   * Be reasonably short (three to fifteen characters)
   * Use lower case characters.
   * Not contain blank spaces.
   * Not contain non-alphanumeric characters (except hyphens). "
I think it would be useful to have some file naming conventions but
am not sure that they would be identical to the folder naming
conventions. For instance, the first one isn't practical when dealing
with large sets of digital images from the same photograph collection.

Question for the group: do we want to revise the MSU guidelines to
include some file naming recommendations or should MDLS just
handle that internally?

Carol