Each week, please identify and prepare papers that you would like to be entered next by completing the following steps:
- Use the star label to identify the papers that you want the student to focus on next.
- Start by keeping a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 highlighted at once so that students can focus on the ones that you want. Students have been entering 1-3 papers per week, once we get closer to 3-5, the min/max should change.
- Choose papers the papers that are the most data rich.
- For each paper, use comment bubbles, notes field, and highlighter to indicate:
- name(s) of traits to be collected
- methods:
- site name
- location
- number of replicates
- statistics to collect
- identify treatment(s) and control
- indicate if study was conducted in greenhouse, pot, or growth chamber
- data to collect
- identify figures number and the symbols to extract data from.
- table number and columns with data to collect
- covariates
- management data (for yields)
- units in 'to' and 'from' fields of tab:traitconversion used to convert data
- esoteric information that other scientists or technicians might not catch and that are not otherwise recorded in the database
- any data that may be useful at a later date but that can be skipped for now.
Comment or Highlight
- sample size
- covariates (see tab:covariates)
- treatments
- managements
- other information entered into the database, e.g. experimental details
David
2011-10-07