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[Up: Organising data](./Organising-data)
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A good naming convention helps keep your data organised. Some scripts have added to OMERO to help extract metadata from file names as [key-values](./Key-value-pairs) pairs.
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A good naming convention helps keep your data organised. Some scripts have been added to OMERO to help extract metadata from file names as [key-values](./Key-value-pairs) pairs.
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Key-value pairs are a very flexible way to record the meta data associated with your data. OMERO has powerful searching functions that allow you search the metadata attached to the files.
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Key-value pairs are a very flexible way to record the meta data associated with your data. OMERO has powerful searching functions that allow you to search the metadata attached to the files.
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### Naming conventions
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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 and have higher chance of typos. If the names get really Windows can't deal them.
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* **Too much detail is bad:** Really long filenames are annoying to type and have higher chance of typos. If the names get really long Windows cannot deal them.
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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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Each research group has different priorities so discuss with your team what is the key information that should be included in your naming system.
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Each research group has different priorities so it is a good idea to discuss with your team what is the key information that should be included in your naming system.
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## Examples
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Here are some example of filenames:
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