This was posted to the annotation channel in Slack on the 22 July 2020.

Issue

We've had a few issues of late, where periodically lots of review annotations have been marked incorrectly as "superceded".

We're in investigating why this is happening in earnest, however while we fix this issue, we're removing the automated process that marks a review annotation as being "superceded" when the latest review has an annotation marked as "complete"

Annotating a review that has no previous PICO annotations:

If you are annotating a review that has never been PICO annotated before, then there is no change to your process

Annotating a review that has been updated AND has already been PICO annotated:

If you are annotating a new review version, where a previous review version has been PICO annotated then on completing your PICO annotation (of the new review) you will need to follow the steps below:

• Mark the status of the new review version as complete
• Go to the QA dashboard: https://data.cochrane.org/qa-dashboard/
• Login (top right hand corner)
• Find the older review version with a status of "Complete" and Change the status to "Superceded"

This is a temporary change, and if you have any questions please do reach out to a member of the linked-data team directly.