Thank you for the brief overview of the situation.
A quick initial suggestion then: since it seems like your investigators care a lot about their filenames, chances are they will also care about sorting files by name, and maybe accessing them directly by typing the first few letters of the name in Explorer. In order not to break these behaviors, I would use a *postfix* timestamp or version number, rather than a prefix one. You will want to give great care to how you define your directory structure, as it is something that may be difficult to change later on. My initial impression is that using the date of upload is not a very good idea: in order to navigate to a certain file, one would have to remember when it was uploaded (and that may very well be different from the date of experiment), and that does not sound very practical... Using uploader identity may work if the data is tightly tied to that person. But it may not work too well if the data is produced by or shared among a team. Having a dedicated team uploader may be a quick fix, but it also has its own drawbacks (think: team uploader on sick leave...) Finally, going a bit beyond your requirements: from your description, it sounds like each and every investigator has his/her own conventions for naming files, that may make sense to them, but not necessarily to anyone else. This may be acceptable in your environment, but it just sounds like something that would hinder data sharing. It is standard prodecure in most IT projects to start by defining coding standards and naming conventions. This includes of course file naming. It may not be practical in your situation, without a dedicated IT support team to centralize the effort, but on the up side: if all uploads are going to be done using the CMS frontend, you have the perfect choke point to enforce naming rules. Anyway, good luck with your effort. Let us know how things go. Cheers, -- Yves-Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
