I began with Snorre Kongesagaer which represents the most complex example because:

• - the first two editions are one year apart with the same text but differences in the illustrations
• - there are revisions, deletions, and new illustrations in the second edition
• - there are differences in illustrations within different copies of the second edition
• - the illustrations were created by six artists
• - there are pages that contain several illustrations by different artists

I constructed a naming convention for Snorre Kongesagaer that requires:

• - a primary source subject title, i.e. Heimskringla = Hms
• - the title of the book, i.e. Snorre Kongesagaer = SKng
• - publication date, i.e. 1st or 2nd ed. = 1899 or 1900
• - a provenance identifier, i.e. UVic copy = UVic; Reykholt copy = RkHt: Oslo copy = Oslo
• the saga or chapter title
• page number
• a number that indicates granularity for multiple images on a page, e.g. ill-01
• - file type

Example: Hms-SKng-Oslo-1899-Yngl-012-ill-01.jpg

Notes and Reflections

• - Snorre Kongesagaer is the Norwegian translation of Heimskringla.
• - I also created a file name for volume 1 of Fr. Winkel Horn’s edition Norges Konge-sagaer, illustrated by Louis Moe, which was published in Denmark in 1896. The Norwegian publisher suppressed this edition by buying it out.
• - details such as the quality of the editions of Snorre Kongesagaer affect whether or not there were page boarders in the edition as well the use of colour but this info can be left to metadata markup
• - Snorre Kongesagaer has been in continuous print since 1899 so there are actually more than two editions. However, I am focusing on the 1st and 2nd editions for my prototype.

To Do

• - Snorre Kongesagaer contains a preface and is divided into 17 sagas, modern editions such as Hollander’s have are divided into 16 sagas. I will include an abbreviation for the individual saga titles in the image file name.
• - I will create a file with a list of primary source subject titles (Heimskringla = Hms, Prose Edda = PrE, Poetic Edda = PoE) as well as the saga titles in Heimskringla, the titles of illustrated manuscripts, and the titles of print editions