Contents:

Loading Data into GEOME (video)

Generating a template

1. Go to GEOME and create an account
2. Create a project and join the FuTRES Team
3. Select the template generator to create a spreadsheet for entering data
   • Select terms
   • Export to a spreadsheet application
   • Speadsheet has:
     • Instructions
     • Template (required field in red)
     • Controlled vocabulary
     • Definition for attributes

Uploading and validating data

1. Upload to GEOME under your project in FuTRES Team
   • Can load multiple spreadsheets at one time under same expedition name
   • Will give an error if a value in a field is wrong (e.g., a string where numbers should be)
2. Name your project:
   • Each project has its own abstract
   • FuTRES_taxon_contributor_locality_time/period
3. Name your expedition:
   • FuTRES_taxon_contributor_locality_time.period and version number or date

Requesting trait terms

1. Check that the term is not currently there
   • Click on measurementType DEF of template
2. Go to FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits (FOVT)
3. Create a New issue
   • Needs:
   • anatomical feature
   • anatomical points and/or anatomical axis
   • measurement (e.g., width, length, etc.)
   • reference for measurement (illustration if have it)