15  Code based scripts

Process Methods and technology

Cleaning and analysis are scripts. Once the field and lab sheets are digitized, the raw file is stored and is not edited by hand. A script reads that file, cleans it, and writes the table that is analysed. The same script is what another person runs.

How that sits in the workflow is in Reproducible workflows, version control. The worked example, from import through the checks, is Data curation.