Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) is a critical step that is used to ensure the validity of data in the database and of the analyses that use these data.
When conducting QA/QC, your data access level needs to be elevated to ``manager''.
- open citation in Mendeley
- locate citation in BETYdb
- select 'use'
- select 'show'
- check that author, year, title, journal, volume, and page information is correct
- check that links to URL and PDF are correct, using doi if available
- if any information is incorrect, click 'edit' to correct.
- check that site(s) at bottom of citation record match site(s) in paper
- check that latitude and longitude are consistent with manuscript, are in decimals not degrees, and have appropriate level of precision tab:siteloc.
- click on site name to verify any additional information site information that is present
- enter any additional site level information that is found
- select https://www.betydb.org/treatments/treatments from menubar
- check that there is a control treatment
- ensure that treatment name and definition are consistent with information in the manuscript.
- under ``treatments from all citations associated with associated sites'', ensure that there is no redundancy (i.e. if another citations uses the same treatments, it should not be listed separately)
- if managements are listed, make sure that managment-treatment associations are correct
- check https://www.betydb.org/managements/managements if there are any listed on the treatments page.
- if Yield data have been collected, ensure that required managements have been entered
- if managements have been entered, ensure that they are associated with the correct treatments
- click https://www.betydb.org/yields/Yields or https://www.betydb.org/traits/Traits to check data.
- check that means, sample size, and statistics have been entered correctly
- if data has been transformed, check that transformation was correct in the associated google spreadsheet (or create a new google spreadsheet following instructions in sec:googlespreadsheets).
- for any trait data that requires a covariate tab:covariates.
David
2011-10-07