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In Hugo, Data Files are placed inside the data folder. Inside, you can further organise the files into different levels of sub-folders. For example, I have a folder named novelists, and inside novelists I have one more level of sub-folders, in which I store my data in YAML (you can choose to use TOML and JSON).

└── novelists
    └──everything
        ├── Knausgaard_Karl_Ove.yaml
        ├── Kundera_Milan.yaml
        ├── Proust_Marcel.yaml
        └── Tolstoy_Leo.yaml

The data files

Inside each YAML file, the data are organised as follow:

name: Leo Tolstoy
bio: "Russian novelist, best known for his novels *War and Peace*, *Anna Karenina* and various essays."

sources:
- title: "Anna Karenina"
  quotes:
  - entry: "quote no. 1"
    comment: "comment no. 1"
    credits: "credit no. 1"
  - entry: "quote no. 2"
    comment: "comment no. 2"
    credits: "credit no. 2"

- title: "War and Peace"
  quotes:
  - entry: "quote no. 3"
    comment: "comment no. 3"
    credits: "credit no. 3"

Accessing the data

The data stored inside ./data/novelists/everything/*.yml can be accessed via .Site.Data.novelists.everything. The snippet below is a simplified version of the actual code used in this website:

{{ range .Site.Data.novelists.everything }}
  <h3>{{ .name }}</h3>
  <p>{{ .bio }}</p>
  {{ range .sources }}
    <h4>{{ .title }}</h4>
    {{ range .quotes }}
      <blockquote>
        <p>{{ .entry }}</p>
        {{ if .credits }}<p><small><em>{{ .credits }}</em></small></p>{{ end }}
      </blockquote>
      {{ if .comment }}<p>{{ .comment }}</p>{{ end }}
      <p><br /></p>
    {{ end }}
{{ end }}

This block of codes does the following things:

• Shows the name of the novelist
• Shows the brief biography
• Lists the books
• Under each book, shows quotes, comments, and credits.