Strategy for Importing Thousands of Scans?

A friend has scanned close to 500 rolls of 35mm film for me. He is sending me DVDs with the JPEG scans. I'm fully aware of the database power of Aperture. Since the scans aren't in any particular order and lacking structure, I foresee just importing them into one huge project. And then, for organization, I'll add keywords and then group a half dozen categories of images by creating smart folders. (I"ve read The Well-Trod Path, and want to employ Apeture to provide the structure). I don't care about chronology and don't want nested folders. I want a smart database.
Does that seem like a reasonable strategy?

Well, l won't be receiving this huge archive by FedEx for a few months. So I don't know how many
DVDs, the size of each of the organization. The scans are being made with an old Nikon Coolpix. And since the negatives were for the most part in those fold-out sleeves, with one sleeve for each roll, I would expect that the sequential files grouped by roll. .
Same for the color slides which were mounted and either in the little Kodak slide boxes, or in plastic sleeves.
I hear you about adding naming and metadata at import rather than later. But in the main, these images will fall into about 5 neat categories. One thing my friend wasn't eable to cope with on either his 35mm Coolpix or flatbed scanners are the unusual 120mm x 8" transparencies. With a 220 roll of fillm, you could get about 3 or 4 eposures. Exuisite detail. These are all of 747 aircract and shot with a Linhof Techika Wide with the Schneider SuperWide lens.This is the same camera used worldwide for school graduating class photos. The resolution is stunning, and I'll have the local camera store scan these in for me. Example attached below. You can count the rivets on the fuselage.
That's me against the fuselage. My photographer friend shot with from the end of the wing. The point where I am standing is about 8 feet deep from wing top to bottom. That's where a good portion of the fuel is stored.

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