Designcraft for experiments: Solo Surveys

A set of remote exercises exploring experimental design for the life sciences. A total of three independent labs were done to focus on different design principles, sampling techniques, and taxa. Exercises are described in full in this open access manual entitled Designcraft for experiments. Data were collected by students in a third-year biology course offering at York University in Toronto, ON, Canada. Students collected the data and published individual datasets to figshare with a CCBY4.0 licensing. Data were then compiled for each lab including balcony birdwatching, backyard bioblitz, and solo surveys by M. Zuliani (ORCID: 0000-0001-8114-3609) and M. Owen (ORCID: 0000-0002-9931-4522). The provenance of each independent observation in the compiled data was recognized by attribution to the initials of the primary data author including citation via DOI and link to figshare. Attribution CJL designed the experiments. Students in course offering collected, innovated, and published individual, primary datasets. MZ, MO, and CJL reviewed the compiled data. Metadata Record-level year is the calendar year of work not term experiment describes the three experimental options in designcraft book source is either full experiment or pilot experiment rep is the replicate per experimental set location is the site name locally habitat is the ecological classification date is the calendar date for each observation本数据集为一套面向生命科学领域的实验设计远程实践项目，共设置三个独立实验模块，分别聚焦不同的实验设计原则、采样技术与分类群（taxa）。本实践项目的完整说明收录于开源手册《实验设计工坊（Designcraft for experiments）》中。 数据由加拿大多伦多市安大略省约克大学（York University）大三生物课程的修读学生采集，学生完成数据采集后，将各自的独立原始数据集发布至figshare平台，并采用知识共享署名4.0（CC BY 4.0）许可协议进行授权。 随后由M. Zuliani（开放研究者与贡献者标识符（ORCID）：0000-0001-8114-3609）与M. Owen（开放研究者与贡献者标识符（ORCID）：0000-0002-9931-4522）完成三个模块的数据整合工作，涵盖阳台观鸟、后院生物多样性突击普查与单人观测调查三类实践内容。 整合后的数据中，每一条独立观测记录的来源均通过标注原始数据作者姓名缩写、引用DOI及跳转至figshare平台的链接予以注明。署名信息显示，CJL负责本次实验的方案设计。修读该课程的学生负责原始数据的采集、实验方法的优化创新与独立原始数据集的发布。MZ、MO与CJL对整合完成的数据集进行了审核。 元数据说明如下： 1. 记录级年份（Record-level year）：指数据采集工作对应的公历年，而非课程学期； 2. 实验（experiment）：对应《实验设计工坊（Designcraft for experiments）》手册中列出的三类实验方案； 3. 数据来源（source）：分为完整实验（full experiment）与预实验（pilot experiment）两类； 4. 重复次数（rep）：每组实验的重复样本数； 5. 观测地点（location）：本地观测点的名称； 6. 生境类型（habitat）：观测点的生态分类描述； 7. 观测日期（date）：单条观测记录对应的公历年月日。