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File and Folder Naming Guidelines

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posted on 2025-02-03, 22:37 authored by Digital Collaborative Governance Team, John DeweesJohn Dewees, Lisa Wright

File-naming can be a deceptively challenging practice, juggling the need to provide useful information in the name without going overboard, ensuring that names are created consistently, that will they will be able to be interacted with programmatically, and ensuring that they don't require constant updating. The best practices outlined here attempt to take into account all of these considerations to create a durable, consistent, and informative set of parameters by which to create file names for digital assets.

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