Nannotax Enabling nannofossil research

WORKFLOW FOR EDITING TAXON DESCRIPTIONS IN THE MESOZOIC SECTION OF THE NANNOTAX SITE

NB You will find it easiest to folllow this page if you have it open in a separate browser window, indeed using several windows and tabs is often helpful with the system.

A. LOG-ON
Go to nannotax and log-on (if you have forgotten your user name or password just send me an email). You do need to be logged on to do any editing.
 
B. FIND TAXON TO EDIT
Navigate to the taxon you are interested in using the Mesozoic menu in the left margin. Click the +   in the menu to expand the tree and click the name  itself to open the view of content related to the taxon.
NB This view is made up of different 'panels', currently these panels are

1. Mesozoic taxa; a panel describing the taxon;
2. Image; a panel displaying all the images uploaded to nannotax which are tagged with the taxon name
3. Yahoo images; a panel displaying images culled automatically from the Yahoo image search (there is also a Flick image search but this is usually hidden).
4. Google Scholar; a panel displaying references which cite the taxon, culled automatically from the Google scholar.

C. CHANGE TO EDIT VIEW
To edit the taxon first click the blue taxon name at the top of the Mesozoic taxon panel. This takes you to a full page view of the Mesozoc taxa page for the taxon. Note that there is a big comments box here - a registered user who is not a contributor could get here and add a comment. To proceed to edit click the blue edit link at the top of the page, if you cannot see this then you do not have contributor permissions and you need to ask me (Jeremy) to enable them.

D. EDIT DATA
You should now be on a page with lots of fields for editing. Very broadly you should work through these filling in data/editing as appropriate. NB

1. There is grey text under most boxes giving outline instructions on what to put in the box.
2. Most boxes allow html text formatting using WYSWYG editor tools along the top. There is also a disable rich-text link at the bottom to have a look at the raw html, I find I do need to use this fairly often to debug formatting.
3. Cutting and pasting text from MS-Word can introduce horrible formatting problems (actually it should be better with .docx files), to avoid this use the special paste from word tool (5th from the right in the button bar)  
4. Don't worry about leaving fields empty. Just filing in the diagnosis what be great.
5. Age range data (tops and bottoms) can be given as NJ BC NC or CC zones or as chronostrat stages. I will add UC nanno zones when Jackie and I work out (provisional) ages for them.  

E. CHECK TAGGING
After editing the page check 'vocabularies' tagging - at bottom of the page.
Checking tagging is important because this description will show up in panel view of any taxon it is tagged with.
THERE SHOULD ONE AND ONLY ONE ENTRY IN THE list of Mesozoic tags, and it should be the same as the title. If there are extra entries (and there often will be e.g. genus entries on species pages) then remove them. Also UNCHECK the "Autotag on save" box (at present this keeps defaulting to be checked, I will get this changed)
   
F. SAVE
If you do not click save all your work will be lost.

 
NB It would be a very useful introductory exercise to work through a genus cleaning up the page tagging. The ones to go for are those where lots of species turn up spuriously on the genus page. Open all those speciespages and remove the genus tag from them.