# Provenance data folder

**URL:** <https://cwl.discourse.group/t/provenance-data-folder/534>\
**Category:** CWL Questions\
**Created:** [February 8, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://cwl.discourse.group/t/provenance-data-folder/534 "2022-02-08T14:41:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://cwl.discourse.group/t/provenance-data-folder/534/1 "2022-02-08T14:41:11Z")

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When using the provenance option the RO-crate like data directory is not useful for humans and makes sharing of information nearly impossible.

For example the data folder from the provenance directory

```auto
PROVTEST/data/40/4081e74c763c6726c4fbb5ce8b68cc71b3246cc8
PROVTEST/data/21/21055eb465948adbd9caf8940e9e2022ad2da04d
PROVTEST/data/36/36090038f404056211ae99607fe60d926b17bc58
PROVTEST/data/5e/5e0f16ce285a3470aac57da33bc8b54216f135de
PROVTEST/data/5f/5fe4e0775626c65266e11733529ed64eff39df3d

```

Output directories and its content from the CWL workflow according to a set naming scheme.

```auto
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 14:36 0.1_Guppy_basecalling/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 14:36 1_FASTQC_read_quality/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 14:36 2_Kraken2_classification/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 14:36 3_Flye_denovo_assembly/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 14:36 4_Medaka_assembly_polishing/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 8 14:36 5_QUAST_assembly_validation/

```

What would be great if these output directories are available in the data folder as it is instead of the md5 list of things.