Quality Assurance

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”.
1.Open citation in Mendeley
2.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
3.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
Click on site name to verify any additional information site
information that is present
Enter any additional site level information that is found
4.Select
​treatments from
menu bar
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
citation uses the same treatments, it should not be listed
separately)
If managements are listed, make sure that managment-treatment
associations are correct
5.Check managements if
there are any listed on the treatments page.
If yield data has been collected, ensure that required
managements have been entered
If managements have been entered, ensure that they are
associated with the correct treatments
6.Click Yields or
​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)
For any trait data that requires a covariate
Appendices
Extracting Data From Figures
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