3. Renaming Files

When you are organizing your files (which should be done immediately after your interview), you should group all of your files for each interview into a single folder, which should be labelled as follows:

subproject_project_lastnameinterviewee_firstnameinterviewee_year-mo-dy

For the Covid 19 oral histories associated with an NEH grant from 2020, a sample folder name might look as follows:

neh2020_c19oh_harris_zachery_2018-07-27.txt

When we see this file, we know that this is an NEH2020 interview for C19OH. The interviewee is Zachery Harris, and the interview was done on July 27, 2018. 

Just as you would label your folder, you would label each item in the folder using a similar format:

subproject_project_lastnameinterviewee_firstnameinterviewee_item_year-mo-dy

Consequently, items for the Zachery Harris folder would look like this:

• neh2020_c19oh_harris_zachery_transcript_2018-07-27.rtf

• neh2020_c19oh_harris_zachery_informedconsent_2018-07-27.pdf

• neh2020_c19oh_harris_zachery_interview_2018-07-27.mp3