Edit Description Samples

Editing the description - Sample data tab

The sample data tab allows assigment and inspection of sampling events and associated sampling units for the description. In the upper left Sampling events part of the tab there is a list of the sampling events stored for the description. By selecting a sampling event entry the Event data are shown in the upper right part of the tab. Here you may edit the event name, a detailled description, the date and time rsp. a date and time span and geographic data. To insert a new sampling event click on the button in the Sampling events section, to delete the selected sampling event and all stored sampling unit data press the button (see image above). 

The geographic area may be linked to an entry of a DiversityGazetteers database (see section Module related entry). If latitiude and longituede have not yet been entered, the coordinates of the selected DiversityGazetteers entry will be inserted. By pressing the button a window to select the coordinates by Google maps will be opened. Field Geo. datum allows entering short text concerning the geodetic datum. If coordinates are entered using Google maps a remark that WGS84 coordinates are used will be inserted.

 

Editing sampling unit data

For each sampling events one or several Sampling units may be entered. A sampling unit represents a tuple of values that belong together, e.g. because they represent a single specimen. For each descriptor, which is represented by the table column, a value may be entered in a sampling unit, which builds a single table line. The background colour of each table column indicates the type of sample data: categorical, quantitative, text or sequence . If the number of sampling units is displayed in field Units of the Sampling units section in the lower part of the tab. If sampling units are present, the number is displayed with yellow background (see image below).

To view the unit data, select a Descriptor tree and choose the descriptor sequence range (From descriptor … to descriptor) to restrict the number of columns displayed in the unit table. Finally press button and the sampling untis will be displayed (see image below). If you prefer to display the present sampling units automatically whenever you select a sampling event, click on the number behind Units. The background changes from yellow to red to indicate this mode. When you select a cell and resources are available for the selected descriptor column, the button will be shown. You may click it to view the descriptor resources. 

To insert a new sampling unit press button . By clicking on the free space at the beginning of a table line you mark the whole sampling unit (see picture below). Now you have the additional options to delete the unit by pressing button or to copy the data to a new sampling unit by pressing the button. Keep in mind that all unit data will be copied, even if you do not see all descriptor columns due to the display restrictions.

 

When you select the Sampling unit ID cell you may enter a collection specimen in the Unit specimen control below the units table. By clicking the button (see section Module related entry) you can link it to an entry in a DiversityCollection database. If the sampling unit is linked to a database entry in DiversityCollection, the text of the Unit specimen: control is shown with light yellow background. You may view the linked data by clicking the button or double clicking the Sampling unit ID cell.

To modify categorical sampling data enter the table cell and press the button within the cell. A control will be opened where you can select the categorical states and enter notes or modifier values (if defined) for each single state (see image below).

 

For all other sampling data the value can be entered directly in the table cell. Notes for the selected table cell are entered in the Notes: text box directly below the units table. For categorical, text and molecular sequence sample data a separate edit window can be opened by double-clicking the table cell. For molecular sequence data the tool strip buttons (import) and  (export) allow import and export from rsp. to dedicated file formats as described in sections Import sequencedata and Export sequence data.

 

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