Re: Filing systems/software

["Avocet" madl74]

> For those of you who categorize according to subject, how do you
> define the actual subject? Most of my recordings can fit into at
> least several easily identifiable subject categories,

Scott,

This is a tree stucture of categories and sub-cateogories. As I wrote
before, I keep my original material in day/date order, but
increasingly I am using shortcuts to cross-reference them. So bird
recordings could have shortcuts in a <bird> folder, but they could
also be listed as type of call, or seasonal. A more sophisticated
system could put the shortcuts in a database. The trick is to keep the
large data file only in one place.

David

David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
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