| Hi Steve, Roger, Martin, Klaus,
Am 29.12.2006 um 02:16 schrieb Steve Upton: I realize that I didn't offer a naming convention to replace it but perhaps this will prompt discussion to come up with something.
I second the idea of a naming convention for generic profiles.
Am 29.12.2006 um 15:26 schrieb Roger Breton: This profile naming scheme clearly and unambiguously designates the country as the "application", as in "Europe", but also identitify unequivocaly the originator of the profile, as in Fogra or ECI or SWOP or Chromix or Fuji or Gracol or X-Rite or HDM or Fuji or Kodak or Adobe or HP or Microsoft or Sun or AGFA or <gasp> China.
There are several aspects that should be reflected in the name and they should not be mixed (ECI and HDM are two different animals): - Who created the profile (organization, company, individual), e.g. ECI - Which profiling software was used, e.g. X-Rite - Dataset on which the profile is based, e.g. fogra39 - Standard that is being met, e.g. ISO 12647-2 - Type of stock, e.g. coated
The name will have to be abbreviated somehow; ECI_HDM_FOGRA39_ISO_12647-2_coated is definitely too long and unwieldy – any suggestions?
I don´t believe we need a country or continent in the name, ISO is an international standard, the datasets are clearly defined by their names and it doesn´t really matter in which country the profile was created. Euroscale never was a standard anyway.
We have the opportunity to create a universal naming convention here and end the chaos in profile names taht rules today. I, for my part, promise to adhere to a naming convention agreed to by this list. And, Klaus, I don´t think it is too late – the ECI profiles are not published yet, and even an existing profile can be renamed easily ;-)
The idea of an additional tag for the dataset is great, but that´ll take time. Grouping profiles with a folder structure in applications like Photoshop could be easier and faster (hey, Adobe – CS3 ???)
Best regards ans Happy New Year,
Karl Koch
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