Once you start downloading your data, the question immediately arises where to put these data and how to organize your data. Recall each observation results in a single multi-source MIRIAD dataset containing all your sources and calibrators. We recommend that you place each of these datasets in a separate directory, since your data reduction scripts likely will look very similar and this can result in a more efficient way to organize your reduced files.
MyProject / Day1 / cx002.foo.1/visdata
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/ Day2 / cx002.foo.2/visdata
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These ``Day'' directories are also a good place to put your observing script and logfile, as it was emailed back to you after the track was finished. With this scheme, after calibration is done in each ``Day'' directory, you might wind up with a script that combines all these data in the following way:
% invert vis=Day1/n1234c,Day2/n1234c,Day3/n1234c map=n1234.mp beam=n1234.bm
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where each ``Day'' directory is assumed to have its cleaned and calibrated MIRIAD dataset named n1234c.