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File Naming Conventions for Newspapers Recommended Practice When creating digital files from newspaper collections, be sure to use a consistent, machine-readable file naming convention that has meaning to human readers. Document your best practice policy for naming digital files and save that documentation with your project files. Characters The characters in the file name should only be as follows: · alphanumeric characters (a-z, 0-9) · underscores and hyphens (no spaces, periods, ampersands, colons, slashes, commas, etc.). · lower case lettering or "camel case" capitalization (e.g. camelCase, fileName, etc.) · no more than 32 characters long (not including file type extension) Structure The structure of the file name should be easy to interpret for any user. Include the following: · Publication title code · Issue date · Page number · Supplements · File format extension Publication title code When working with newspaper collections, be sure to identify the publication title in the file name using an acronym. Create an authority file, or list of Publication titles and their assigned acronyms, for cross-reference purposes. E.g. York Herald = YH York Holler = YHo Newmarket Era = NEra Essex Free Press: EFP Issue date Identifies the year, month and day of publication using the following structure: YYYYMMDD e.g. 19840423 June 2012 OurDigitalWorld