Resources Guides
These are How To pages organized by topic.
Also view Tutorial Quick Bites for short training videos on specific topics!
Joining Arctos: How To Get Started
- How to Join Arctos
- How to Create a New Collection in Arctos
- How to Manage a Collection
- How to Create your Arctos Team (Users and Operators)
Github: How To Use GitHub to Contribute to the Handbook and Arctos Development
- Getting Started with Github for Arctos
- The Issue Process: How to Make Arctos Work for You
- How To Contribute Content to the Arctos Handbook
- How To Contribute a Video Tutorial to the Arctos Handbook
- How To get the most out of editing Arctos on Github (Tips, Tools, Step-by-Step guide)
- Mastering Markdown on Github.com
GitHub for Arctos Development
GitHub for Arctos Handbook
Agents: How To Create and Edit Agents
Genetic Resources: How To Create and Manage GenBank Links
Localities: How To Create and Manage Locality Data
See also MVZ's curatorial manual 'Taming the Bear' below.- Start here with the Arctos Locality Model
- Creating a New Specific Locality
- Editing Specific Locality
- Editing Verbatim Locality
- Merging Duplicate Localities
- Editing coordinates and maximum errors
- Editing coordinates for a single specimen
- Creating New Collecting Event for a Locality
- Reassigning specimens to another locality
- Media (images) and localities
Media: How To Create and Manage Media and Related Metadata
- What is Media in Arctos?
- How To Create Media
- How To Edit Media
- How To Upload Media to TACC/Arctos
- How To Bulkload Metadata for Media
- How To Understand Media Localities
Object Tracking: How To Manage Containers and Their Contents
- Object Tracking Documentation
- How To Start Object Tracking in Arctos
- How To Choose and Use Machine-based Object Tracking Equipment and Supplies
- How To Create and Edit Containers
- How To Create an Individual Container in Arctos Object Tracking (e.g. Freezer Box with Positions)
- How To Install Cryovials Into a Freezer Box
- How To Barcode Cryovials in an Existing Freezer Box
- How To Move a Single Barcoded Container
- How To Bulkload Barcodes to Specimen Parts
Reports and Labels: How To Create, Manage, and Print Labels with the Arctos Reporter
Taxonomy: How To Create and Manage Taxa
- Basics of Arctos Taxonomy
- How to Create Taxa
- How to Edit Taxa
- How To Manage Taxonomy Hierarchically
- How To Manage Taxonomic Classifications
- How To Search for Specimens with Indentification and Taxonomy
- How To Manage Taxonomy in the WoRMS (via Arctos) Source
Learn how to use Arctos better here! Written by Arctos users for their respective collections
- MVZ's Curatorial Manual called "Taming the Bear or: Basic Locality Functions in Arctos: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Database"
- MVZ's Useful SQL Query Examples
- CHAS's Site Map of Arctos