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Pipelines for generating a standard data format for bird data
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Add ExperimentID for NIOO #4

Open LiamDBailey opened 5 years ago

LiamDBailey commented 5 years ago

For NIOO.

Add Experiment ID for each brood.

StefanVriend commented 5 years ago

Does this refer to a column indicating whether a brood was experimental/manipulated and fitness was affected? Or rather a column describing what type of manipulation was carried out?

LiamDBailey commented 5 years ago

We're thinking to create some broad categories that experiments would fall under. So far I've come up with:

PHENOLOGY: Experiments that affect phenology. For example, early season supplemental feeding.

SIZE: Experiments that affect the size of the clutch, brood, or number of fledglings. For example, egg removal.

PARENTS: Experiments that affect parentage. For example, cross-fostering experiments.

SURVIVAL: Experiments that affect the survival of adults or chicks. For example, disease or heavy metal exposure treatments.

Do you think these cover most experiments?

We would then probably need a separate Experiment table that includes details about exactly what experimental manipulations were conducted.

StefanVriend commented 5 years ago

That would definitely work, yes. I now wonder whether there are types of experiments that would fall under multiple categories? Of course, we can share these categories with the network and ask for input.

LiamDBailey commented 4 years ago

Partially solved with commit f5d56cf03671fa4315cab8abca85c6e94ac949e0; however, this just classifies as TRUE/FALSE. This is enough to allow us to distinguish experimental nests for quality_check, but needs to be more precise in the future.