<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
Hello,<div><br></div><div>I'm trying to tidy up my files on my home laptop, which I've only ever used secondarily to whatever computer I was assigned by various workplaces. Over about four years, I've ended up with a real hodge-podge of recordings and files in all kinds of languages made in all kinds of situations by all kinds of people even! (When you lend out your Zoom recorder it can come back with interesting things on it!). I thought it's time for a spring clean.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm pretty decided on a way to label my files consistently, but would appreciate any feedback or shared experiences.</div><div><br></div><div>I thought I'd go with something like:</div><div><br></div><div>100405MARfrNGUgd01</div><div><br></div><div>Which is DATE (April 5, 2010) LANGUAGE (Marra) speaker (initials: fr) LOCATION (Ngukurr) "recorded by" (gd = me) Series number (1st in the series)</div><div><br></div><div>And then any ELAN, metadata, video or text files will have the same name, just a different file extension.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering though, what should I do about metadata? What do others do? How necessary is keeping metadata for such a miscellaneous collection of files? And how do I do it? One place I worked at just kept a store of .txt files of metadata - 1 file for each recording. Is that a good way?</div><div><br></div><div>Any help or info appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Guda mingi,</div><div>(That's all now)<br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div>Greg Dickson</div><div><br></div><div>PO Box 2468</div><div>Katherine NT 0852</div><div>Ph: 8971 0207 / 0427 391 153</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:munanga@bigpond.com">munanga@bigpond.com</a></div></div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></body></html>