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===Other Files=== | ===Other Files=== | ||
Files containing formal documents, scanned newsletters, and so on should have multi-component names reflecting the nature of the particular material, with a standard naming convention chosen to allow coverage of both existing and future material of the same type. | |||
For most formal documents, this will include at least the type of document and some form of date. For example, for meeting minutes it will need to include at least some sort of name/abbreviation of the committee/body that was meeting and the date of the meeting, as well as the actual word "minutes" (because the same committee/body might well have other associated documents, also identified by date). | |||
For periodicals, in some cases it may be appropriate to use a volume/issue number convention rather than a date. However, this is best limited to cases where the original periodical used a consistent numbering system throughout its existence. There are some periodicals which, although they maintained a similar purpose and similar name over many decades, switched how they numbered volumes, perhaps when a new editor took over. In such cases it probably makes sense to use issue date (in most cases year and month) as the primary identifier, even if it was also labeled with volume/issue numbers. | |||
==Needed conventions== | ==Needed conventions== | ||