We've been talking for a while about how we want to store data.  I'm not in love with keeping it on the elog, although I think we should always be able to reference and go back and forth between the elogs and the data.

I have made a new folder: /data    EDIT: nevermind.  I want it to be on the file system just like /users, but I don't know how to do that.  Right now the folder is just on Ottavia. Jamie will help me tomorrow.

In this folder, we will save all of the data which goes into the elog. 

I propose that we should have a common format for the names of the data files, so that we can easily find things.

My proposal is that one begins ones elog regarding the data to be saved, and submit it immediately after putting in the first ~sentence or so. One should then make a new folder inside the data folder with a title "elog#####_Anything_Else_You_Want" Then, data (which was originally saved in ones own users folder) should be copied into the /data/elog#####_AnythingElse/ folder. Also in that folder should be any Matlab scripts used to create the plots that you post in the elog.  One should then edit the elog to continue making a regular, very thorough elog, including the path to the data.  Elog should include all of the information about the measurement, state of the IFO (or whatever you were measuring), etc. 

Riju will be alpha-testing this procedure tonight.  EDIT: nevermind...see previous edit.