EM Folder Tree

What it is

The EM Folder Tree is the canonical project structure for an Extended Matrix project. It is a small zipped scaffold that you unzip into the root of your project folder before you start authoring nodes in yEd or annotating proxies in Blender.

It contains:

• the DosCO directory — the document collection, the place where every source file you intend to cite as a Document node lives, named with the D.NN convention (D.01_florence_state_archive_…, D.02_aerial_orthophoto_…, etc.);
• canonical sub-folders for graphs, exports, source lists, and intermediate artefacts so the project tree stays predictable;
• README placeholders inside each folder pointing at the relevant manual page.

Why use it

The folder tree is an EM language convention, not bound to any single tool. It lets multiple collaborators on the same project find each other’s documents and exports without a per-project naming discussion. It also lets EM Tools (and any other consumer of the project tree) discover documents by convention rather than by configuration.

How to install

Download the zip from the link on the version page, unzip it into the root of your new project, and start populating the DosCO folder with the sources you intend to cite.