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Location
Data type
Year (or other time unit) range
Program or institution name, if your dataset is part of a large effort
Naming Examples
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Poor project titles:
Plankton data
ROV data from Sue
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Plankton Diversity Data, Prince William Sound, 2012-2016
Conductivity, temperature and depth data for 12 northwestern Gulf of Mexico locations, May to July 2012
SAFARI 2000 Upper Water Column Profiles, Gulf of Alaska, 2011-2012
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Organizing Folders within a Project
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Folders are an important way to organize your project files into smaller, easier-to-manage, and identifiable units. Create a logical folder structure to help you stay organized and easily find and retrieve your stored files, and initiate it at the beginning of your project to save time and frustration.
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Folder Organization Example
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Level of Granularity
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It may be unrealistic to anticipate and pre-create every folder that will be needed for a project. Instead, consider the level of folder hierarchy that will provide sufficient structure for users and collaborators on your project to create their own subfolders.
A good approach is to establish the first one or two levels in the hierarchy, then let your collaborators create subfolders for lower levels as needed.
Granularity Examples
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Project: Sea Monkey Forage Study
Parent folder: Prey Data
Child folder: 2017
Users can create subfolders within as needed
Child folder: 2018
Users can create subfolders within as needed
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Rename default folder names generated by the Research Workspace with descriptive titles.
Name folders according to the areas of work to which they relate, and not after individuals. Classify file types with broad folder names.
Use folder names that are unambiguous and meaningfully describe the folder contents to you and your collaborators.
Be consistent when developing a naming scheme. Ideally, a scheme is created at the start of a project and used consistently throughout.
Avoid extra long folder names, but use information-rich file names instead (refer to File Naming).
Try to avoid duplicate folder names or paths. For example, if a folder is named “Photos” in one directory, don’t create a subfolders elsewhere named “Images”.
Examples of folder names
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Poor folder names:
My Data
My Folder
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