organising_data/Using-naming-conventions.md

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 3. Separate metadata (values) in filenames or directory by an underscore (`_`)  
 4. You can use directory structure to organise your data, the management of this is a little more complicated though.
  
+### Guidelines
+There are no specific rules how to name your files.  Whatever system you choose to use, they must be detailed enough that some from your research group could take your lab book and identify each image.
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+* **More detail is better:** Adding some hints, like  `time` or `cell-line` makes it easier for you, and others, to at a glance work out what the naming system means.
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+* **Too much detail is bad:** Really long filenames are annoying to type, have more chance of typos and can cause issues for Windows.
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+* **Directories can help:** You may prefer to organise your data into directories.  This helps to reduce input errors.  After importing to OMERO there are some scripts that add the directories to the filename. 
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 ## Examples
 Here are some example of filenames:
 
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    - code for the substrate (R3)
    - filed of view code (1_8)
    - replicate number (01)
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