File naming for DVD viewing/Date taken info

[DennyD]

This is a two-part question (see below “adding date taken“). Advice or references much appreciated. Apologies for the long explanation.

My mission is to condense 6000± slides into 600 “family best” on DVDs for the kids and the next generations. What is the best file naming format? (While PE is great for keeping track on the computer, I think that simple windows-style files will be fundamentally best for archiving. Then the DVD images can be played on a TV).
I started by file naming: Fred 1967-01…-02, -03 etc, 1971-01 to 06, 1977..etc. Same for other names or places. Seems to work, but can’t be viewed by “date taken”, since scanned images don’t have the “date picture taken“.
My friend names his all: Fred001 …to Fred453; then makes up a companion text file that viewers can print off describing all 453 images. Cumbersome. I prefer descriptive file names, like “Fred Bev & Gr’maD1975-03.jpg”. PE Orgaganizer “Captions” do the job, but these don’t show on a TV or another computer unless done as a slide show (right?).

Adding “date picture taken” to scanned images
Windows Explorer can sort image files in a “date taken” column. But all my scanned images have only the date scanned. Does anyone know how to add a “date taken”? The windows file properties dialogue provides options to add title, subject, author, notes, but not “date taken” (to be compatible with my digital camera images).
DennyD

[JonE]

There's no particularly right or wrong way to name your files. The best way to name them is the way that will have them appear in a file organizer such as Windows Explorer in the order you want them to appear, and how you want them to appear. So if you want Grandpa Fred to appear under Grandpa, then list it as Grandpa Fred. If you want it to appear under Fred then list it that way. For the sake of future viewers who may not know some or many of the people, they might appreciate if you would use full names and list them such as Smith Fred & Mary, Johnson Betty & Joe, and if you want more info just add it in such as Smith Fred & Mary at Empire State Bldg. If you want them to appear in date order then enter them as 1964 Smith Fred & Mary. The side text file is actually a good idea. Remember that all the little stuff you know today will be lost one or at best 2 generations from now. So for example a text file (which you can save onto the disc) that includes things like "the little green dress was made by her Aunt Mary Johnson for her 4th birthday" will be much appreciated in the future.

To your second question, in PSE Organizer go to Edit>Adjust Date and Time. Good luck, this will be time consuming for many images. If you have several to set to one date, you can select them all before selecting the command.

[DennyD]

Jon E, thanks for the comments. I should have added, I am using Win XP-sp2.
Re: adding date taken, I've done this with PE Organizer, but "date taken" entered in PE doesn't show as such in the windows detailed listing; there the "date taken" is the date scanned. No way to alter or edit that, is there? I would like to have the option of sorting by file name, or by date taken using windows. I expect that future users will show images via a windows-style menu. Or can re-sort the DVD files by date rather than file name. I have not yet tried showing CD images on TV, but expect this is the case from the PC file properties.

/DD