This repository contains the materials for creating the ODK KoBo
stem-measurement and plant biovolume applications, and tools & procedures for
processing collected data.
Since moving away from paper data sheets, the workflow for collecting and
processing stems data has evolved through many iterations. The first application
was build with ODK, with a processing workflow that entailed manually
downloading data files from the tablets then extracting the information with
ODK's Briefcase tool with subsequent formatting and upload to the urbancndep
database. As support fro Briefcase eroded, a manual workflow to harvest data
directly from XML files downloaded from the tablets was developed. In the most
recent iteration, we switched from ODK to the KoBo ecosystem, which provides
better cloud support. In this new KoBo-centric workflow, the application logic
is uploaded to KoBoToolbox as an Excel file, which can then be downloaded to the
tablets. Data collected in the field is then uploaded to KoBoToolbox. At the end
of a sampling campaign, data are exported from KoBoToolbox as an Excel file. The
kobo_workflow.R details harvesting data from the Excel file with appropriate
formatting for upload to the database with the actual upload facilitated by the
logic in populate_database.qmd.