First two characters are for the year the data were collected. If the file is a multiyear collection then use the first four characters to indicate the span of years. Next two to four characters are for the data type identifier. This can either be a PI's initials or a data type code, e.g. a lake code, dl for datalogger, etc. The next four to ten characters are for briefly describing the data file.
File extensions are .doc for document files and .dat for data files.
Please do not create excessively long names and do not use spaces in the filename. Note that we are no longer limiting the name to eight characters. The year or years that the data were collected. Short, accurate explanation of the data set. Be informative since this is used as the description in the web page index.