Making Information Scaleable
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Information written in one digital format can often be easily converted to other 
digital formats.  This may be required either over time as needs change or all at once to 
make the information as accessable to as many people as possible in their differing 
circumstances

For example, a document in a word processed format (such as Sun's StarOffice 
or Microsoft's Word) can be converted to a desk-top-publishing format (such as Adobe 
Pagemaker or Quark) then to more portable document formats (such as HTML/XHTML for a web 
browser or PDF for Adobe Acrobat)

(Also, information is best kept to the most accessable formats possible, but that is the 
subject of another document)

These guidelines, if adhered to from the beginning and at each stage of development, 
will enable such translations to be more automated and less complicated:

- keep all filenames short but at the same time as descriptive as possible

- do not use spaces between words in filenames, use a dash ('-') instead;
  (an underscore ('_') can be difficult to see, i.e. as a web address on a printed page 
  where the author has already chosen to underline web addresses (a choice itself perhaps
  worth making for screen display but not for a printed medium))
  [reason: a space in the filename will not work for text or images used on the web]

- use only lowercase letters for file names
  [reason: if used on the web, depending on the web server, lowercase and uppercase letters
   are treated differently, whereas the reader will most likely expect them to be treated the 
   same, thus causing confusion if they're hand typing the address]


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