Research folder structure standard

Read more about the Tonic folder structure and its background. This can be useful,

  • … if you’re a user and need to do some manual project maintenance
  • … if you’re a tool developer who wants to contribute or implement a compliant tool

Here is an overview of the standard and its 7 high level folders (project level). By adding new folders for new experiments, and by sharing specific subfolders using cloud technologies, one can automate project and lab management using the template.

Folders starts with a 2 digit numbers in order for them to always follow the same order when ordered by name.

Overview of the research folder template standard version 2

The latest version of the standard is available at https://github.com/tonic-team/Tonic-Research-Project-Template

You can give feedback via this survey or by filling an issue there.

You can read about the history of the standard in Colomb et al. (2021).

References

Colomb, Julien, Thorsten Arendt, Keisuke Sehara, and The Gin-Tonic team. 2021. “Towards a Standardized Research Folder Structure.” Generation Research. https://doi.org/10.25815/WCY6-M233.