Updates

Blogs

In our Annotation Knowledge Base in Confluence we can create blogs. I will create short blogs

• For quick reminders, or updates to guidance or
• Or where I will copy the contents of these emails

Email & CIS newsletter

I will continue to email when necessary and add some information to the CIS newsletter (we have some annotators who are not CIS so the latter is not ideal for everyone).

Reviews

Annotation status

• By now the pre 2020 reviews should be annotated. If you have not annotated all the post 2015 publications for your Group myself and Carol Friesen will go through them. Email me 😊.
• We aim to annotate new and updated reviews as soon as published. It would be helpful for me to know if you 
• Are going on long holidays
• Any kind of long term leave e.g. maternity
• Even just swamped with work (!)

and you think that your CRG will publish reviews during your absence and we can do them

Flexible format

We can now annotate reviews that are published using this format.

• Annotate if you have intervention reviews in this format – if you are unclear about this please email me
• Most seem to be rapid reviews (am not sure how widely it is being used)

Vocabulary

Requesting vocabulary terms

The vocabulary request form is found on the main Annotation Knowledge Base page. On the same page under Vocabulary there is guidance on how to check your open requests.

• ONLY use Block for annotations that are waiting for terms for P or I/C
• If  P and I/C are completed but you need to wait for terms for outcomes mark the annotation Complete

Blocked annotations

Remember to check

Outcomes

Annotate each outcome as a new group

Core outcome sets (COS)

I am creating a list of COS for CRGs if there are any. If your CRG has a specific list or is working to create one please let me know. They are helpful for vocabulary development.

CRG name changes & merges

Those of you who belong to CRGs that have merged with others or had a name change may notice that when you load a review into the annotator you still see your old name or in the case of merged Groups ‘undefined’.

• Most of these are reviews that were registered before the name change
• The annotation is saved with the correct review for the correct Group so do not worry!
• This also applies to the term request form that you use – this I will check and update

Issues with tools/annotations

• Some annotations may not appear with the review on the CDSR but the developers are aware of this and the issue should be resolved soon (versioning issue)
• When you have saved the annotation to a new version of a review please make sure that the older version(s) are marked Superceded – this is automatic for most reviews but not for some (versioning issue)
• In recent months we had an issue which prevented some CDs from loading – this has been resolved. If you have not annotated since last year I would recommend that you clear you browser cache before you return to annotating
• If you receive the message in the image below when you try to load a CD into the annotator it does not necessarily mean what it says!
• Withdrawn reviews published before 2015 may give you this message if you try to load them. (Reviews withdrawn that were published from 2014 will have a message stating that they are withdrawn)
• If Archie is down you may also receive this message
• Anyway, email me if you are having issues with the tools