Thanks Jon that has guided me part of the way,

A related puzzle I'm trying to solve is where to find the xsd file that describes the folder.xml file found in the example study you shared. I need to produce a folder.xml file to load both the study and the reports. I have been using https://www.labkey.org/download/schema-docs/xml-schemas/ to get the xml schema files that describe how the various xml files I need for study serialization should look. The problem is that looking through the schema-docs that Labkey has online I cannot find one that describes the folder.xml object (folderType.xsd is the closest but that should be a member object of the folder object). Furthermore, the "http://labkey.org/folder/xml" namespace referenced in the folder.xml file does not appear to exist in the docs. Am I mis-interpreting what I am observing somehow? Can you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks