Read-only for raw data is great advice. Also, an intuitive structure for subdirectories is important. But raw data as *.pdf seems a bit... impractical? Are reviewers and (future) readers then supposed to parse your data from a PDF? This sounds a bit error-prone to me (or I don't get it)
Andreas Nanz
Some really good advice here from the Open Science Framework (@cos.io) on organizing files. I particularly like the recommendation to make raw data 'readme' so it can't be accidentally altered or mixed.
help.osf.io/article/147-...
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