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Matt from the Orange Project has posted a great description on how they organise their Blender files in a team-based scenario.

Blender offers a pretty wide range of options for managing assets with its library linking system, and we’re using it a lot. As well as appending things straight into a local file, you can link any blender datablocks like objects, object data, actions, or entire sets from an external library .blend file. Blender also allows multiple Scenes in each file, which can be completely independent, or have various datablocks linked between them. The trick for us was in deciding what features would suit us best (and what should be coded :)

It's a great read. Managing files may not be a high priority for users that work solo, but it's still important to know. Even if you are working by yourself, a simple backup and revision/versioning system is a good place to start. I use Subversion at my day job [software developer] but also use it for my own Blender projects, and important GIMP/Photoshop files. In theory you can use subversion to backup/version anything.