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File structure in practice

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Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 20 min
Questions

  • How do we reach for a more structured way to organize our files and folders?

Objectives

  • Understand how a structured file system increases FAIRness of your data

  • Understand the problems of mixing file and folder standards

About this episode

We are back in the Famous lab. You have downloaded the data, realised the available metadata is insufficient and of low quality, and that you will likely not get in contact with the previously responsible PhD.

  1. About this episode
  2. Identifying the problem
  3. Exercise 10
    1. Solution

Identifying the problem

  • What can we do in order to increase the structure of our files and folders?
  • What measures can we take so that our successors will not have to deal with the same issues we are facing now?

File_system

Exercise 10

Starting with the zip file containing the inherited file system shown above, can you adapt the information from the previous episodes to bring order to the system, provide better file names, a clear folder structure, and add one or more README files?

Solution

There are many potential ways to improve the file system. The downloadable solution should not be seen as the only alternative, but as one of many possible alternatives.