Getting Started

Overview

This is the user guide for entering data into the BETYdb database. The goal of this guide is to provide a consistent method of data entry that is transparent, reproducible, and well documented. The steps here generally accomplish one of two goals.

The first goal is to provide data that is associated with the experimental methods, species, site, and other factors associated with the original study. The second goal is to provide a record of all the transformations, assumptions, and data extraction steps used to migrate data from the primary literature to the standardized framework of the database.

Getting Started

Sign up for BETYdb

At a minimum, you should create an account on the instance of BETYdb that you will be using. For example, BETYdb.org. Other instances of BETYdb include:

Institution	url	Maintainer
University of Illinois	https://betydb.org	David LeBauer
Boston University	https://psql-pecan.bu.edu/bety	Mike Dietze
Brookhaven National Lab	http://modex.test.bnl.gov/bety	Shawn Serbin
University of Wisconsin	http://tree.aos.wisc.edu:6480/bety	Ankur Desai
TERRA Ref	https://terraref.ncsa.illinois.edu/bety	David LeBauer

Other Accounts

There are multiple research groups running the database. To use the database; request "creator" access during signup to enter data; request "manager" to perform QA/QC.

• Mendeley to track and annotate citaitons.

• Google Docs to prepare and transform data prior to entry.

• Github to track data that need to be checked and/or corrected.