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- (Victoria University of Wellington) We have purposefully used 'dumb' or 'generic' filenames in loading digital material into the research repository, e.g. thesis.pdf; paper.pdf; form.pdf; report.pdf, etc. I expect the metadata that the object is associated with to enable information and object retrieval. However, in saying that, the filenames we use are also a means to guide/remind users of the type of file that they are downloading. That in itself is 'doubling' up the load on the filename to act also as a resource type label. However, if all the filenames change in a preservation migration or transformation, we have metadata associated with digital object to identify the resource type.
Additions made October 2010 and later:
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/systems/digitalinitiatives/docs/filenameguidelines.pdf