AVH Help Page Design Discussions

General design

 * This is the help discussion page. It is needed because the two separate help pages are used as is by AVH2 and so comments need to be kept within this page.
 * AVH Public Help Page
 * AVH Restricted Help Page

INTRODUCTION
I'm planning to include some general information about the new site: things that are working well, things that are still under development and things that are planned for the future. Also planning to include contact details for herbaria so that people can let us know if they find errors, or if they need more detailed information (subject to everyone's approval, of course).

Family
Still awaiting information from some herbaria on the family classification systems they use

Qualifiers

 * Design notes :Include a direct link to this subsection from Include qualifiers on the AVH page.

Determination

 * Design notes :Group Determined by and Determination date under a new Determination heading that links to this section. Family should be moved to the Plant name query section, and UnitID is being removed from this page. There was a (good) suggestion to remove Full scientific name altogether. Move it up to Plant name query if it is going to be retained.

Collecting locality

 * Design notes :Group Country, Herbarium Region, Nearest named place and Locality text under a new Collecting locality heading that links to here.
 * Need to add notes about Country, State and Region once the issues with those fields have been resolved.

Country
To be added

State
To be added

Botanical region
Botanical region doesn't come up in the output, so I can't check what values are available for searching on.

Altitude

 * The 13% of records that include altitude has come from MEL’s database; it would be good if others could check the % in their databases so we can adjust the figure up or down – otherwise I’ll just bump it up to 15 or down to 10 so it’s a nicer, rounder, figure.


 * 16% have a non-zero altitude. Actually the 16% is over the whole database, including algae and seagrasses which account for ~2% of the records Rex 15:05, 22 September 2008 (EST)

Depth

 * Selecting the algae families and some seagrass genera, the percentage of records with non-NULL and non-zero depth is just over 20%. I had to exclude a depth of 0.0 since some datasets had been loaded with that value instead of NULL. Rex 15:03, 22 September 2008 (EST)

Centroid query
Need to know how box size will work. Why is it a box and not a circle? i.e. why not have user enter radius from centroid? How will geo grid ref work?

Specimen located at
Need to add an explanation of the AD codes to the restricted help page

Accession number
Need to explain what the different prefixes of DNA accession numbers mean. Need to explain what AD suffixes mean (not present on all records).

Cultivated records
Awaiting response to hiscom list emails

Collection date
Awaiting clarification of date issues

Date range query
As above

Type
At MEL we prefix our type status with a '?' if there is any doubt about the type status. Does anyone else do this (or other variations?

Validation level
Could someone please provide Alison with some information on this field, and who is providing it?