A study of ‘calf-path’ in file naming in institutional repositories in India
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56042/alis.v70i1.68713Keywords:
Filenames, Metadata, Information retrieval, Information management, Institutional repositoriesAbstract
This study examined the file naming practices in 39 institutional repositories. There is evidence that calf-path exists in
file naming among the curators of institutional repositories in India. The study showed that no standard or logic seems to
have been followed by repositories in the naming of the files, except by the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) and the
CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (CSIR-NIScPR). The study also examined the
composition of the filenames, which shows that the author names (11.2%), titles (11.9%), journal title with volume and issue
numbers (21.1%) form the basis for the formation of filenames. It is suggested that digital repository managers have to give
more attention to name files in the institutional repository in the interest of uniformity and consistency.
