Re: 350+ scans of original upholstery-carpet-top cards

Posted by BH On 2011/2/27 21:20:01

Stephen -

Thanks for the explanation and reference to previous posts.

At present we have a fine collection of images with highly detailed titles composed of keywords. As far as the site search is concerned, it doesn't matter what character the words/elements are separated by (as long as it's not alpha, a wildcard, or any troublesome special character), but with repeated reference in this thread to a database, I was thinking beyond that. With the initial suggestion of underscore versus hyphen/dash, I was expecting the title to be parsed into distinct fields, beyond a visual cue in the title.

For example, following the sample that you provided for P/N 6481031, in post #38, the actual title (which was cut-off after 'Hairlin', but I have reconstructed) appears as follows:

5622-5662-5672A-5682-5687_Set-63-73-83-113-123-163-183_Imitation_Leather_Sidewall_Dark-Green_Hairline_6481031

...and parsing, from my perspective, would render:

5622-5662-5672A-5682-5687
Set-63-73-83-113-123-163-183
Imitation
Leather
Sidewall
Dark-Green
Hairline
6481031

I was thinking that:

5622-5662-5672A-5682-5687_Set-63-73-83-113-123-163-183_Imitation-Leather-Sidewall_Dark-Green-Hairline_6481031

...would nest the elements more like the parts book:

5622-5662-5672A-5682-5687
Set-63-73-83-113-123-163-183
Imitation-Leather-Sidewall
Dark-Green-Hairline
6481031

Please feel free to correct me if I am too far out in left field.

However, there are some inconsistencies in use of the underscore and hyphen. For example, sometimes I find colors noted as:

Light_Blue

...in some cases, and:

Light-Blue

...in others

Also, I find examples like:

2650-2651-2652_5450-5451-5452

While I understand that the underscore, in this last eaxample, is used separating two ranges of models from different years/Series (similar to what the parts book does with a semicolon and a space), it would parse as two, separate fields.

Clearly, coding the tag info into an image title was no easy task, but maybe I am thinking too far ahead.

Still, I feel that all of these titles need to uniformly follow the same agreed-upon standard.