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Other helpful curation files

Other helpful curation files

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Other helpful curation files

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- [Monica] Now I'm going to talk about a grab bag of other helpful curation files you can maintain for your project or database. We have already talked about standard back-end, front-end, and survey curation files. We'll talk a lot about those files in this course, when and how to make them. But you are going to want some other curation files in addition to these, and I admit, it's kind of an art when it comes to deciding what they are. It really depends on the project, and I seem to get a feel for what extra files to have around to help the team as we proceed through the project. If my team members and I keep running into the same pitfall, let's say, misinterpreting the same variable over and over, that's where I need extra curation. Anything that routinely confuses people or makes people have to look stuff up is a topic that would probably benefit from some extra, bonus, usually text-based curation files. Here are some…

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