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Methodologies for this are going to vary from project to project, and the responsibility usually falls to an assistant of some sort. It always helps to slate everything on set, keep your methods for that consistent, and to avoid rolling too far before the director calls for a marker.
On the DaVinci side, if you're the one entering all the info, there are a few tricks, and I'm sure I don't know them all. One of them is to use tokens wherever you can. Try typing a percent symbol in an input field; the clip name field is a good place to start. You'll get a dropdown selection of attributes which are available to auto-populate the field. You can also select these tokens, copy them, and paste them into a text editor to see how they're actually formatted, and save combinations for re-use. For example, try pasting this text into the clip name field, without the quotation marks: "%{Project Name}_S%{Scene}_S%{Shot}_T%{Take}". If your camera metadata contains scene, shot and take information, when you hit return, the clip name will become something like "MyProject_S1_S5_T4". It's up to you to decide what naming conventions to use, what's helpful, and what information is available.
Also, check out smart bins.