Designcraft for experiments: Backyard Bioblitz

A set of remote exercises exploring experimental design for the life sciences. A total of three independent labs were done to focus on different design principles, sampling techniques, and taxa. Exercises are described in full in this open access manual entitled Designcraft for experiments. Data were collected by students in a third-year biology course offering at York University in Toronto, ON, Canada. Students collected the data and published individual datasets to figshare with a CCBY4.0 licensing. Data were then compiled for each lab including balcony birdwatching, backyard bioblitz, and solo surveys by M. Zuliani (ORCID: 0000-0001-8114-3609) and M. Owen (ORCID: 0000-0002-9931-4522). The provenance of each independent observation in the compiled data was recognized by attribution to the initials of the primary data author including citation via DOI and link to figshare.AttributionCJL designed the experiments.Students in course offering collected, innovated, and published individual, primary datasets.MZ, MO, and CJL reviewed the compiled data.MetadataRecord-levelyear is the calendar year of work not termexperiment describes the three experimental options in designcraft booksource is either full experiment or pilot experimentrep is the replicate per experimental setlocation is the site name locallyhabitat is the ecological classificationdate is the calendar date for each observation

本数据集为一套面向生命科学领域的远程实验教学资源，核心围绕实验设计主题展开。本次教程共设置三组独立实验，分别聚焦不同的实验设计原则、采样技术与生物分类群。所有实验内容均在开源手册《Designcraft for experiments》中完整说明。

实验数据由加拿大多伦多安大略省约克大学三年级生物学课程的学生采集完成。学生将各自生成的原始数据集上传至figshare平台，并采用CC BY 4.0（知识共享署名4.0）许可协议进行公开发布。随后，由M. Zuliani（ORCID：0000-0001-8114-3609）与M. Owen（ORCID：0000-0002-9931-4522）完成三组实验的数据整合工作，这三组实验分别为阳台观鸟、后院生物快速普查（bioblitz）与单人调查。

整合后的数据中，每一条独立观测记录的来源均通过标注原始数据作者姓名缩写、引用DOI并链接至figshare平台的方式完成溯源标注。

### 署名与贡献说明
1. CJL 负责实验整体设计；
2. 修读该课程的学生完成数据采集、实验内容创新优化，并发布各自的原始数据集；
3. MZ、MO与CJL对整合后的数据集进行了审核。

### 元数据说明
每条记录包含以下字段：
- `year`：数据采集所属的自然年度，而非教学学期；
- `experiment`：对应《Designcraft for experiments》手册中列出的三类实验方案；
- `source`：实验类型，分为完整实验（full experiment）与预实验（pilot experiment）两类；
- `rep`：单组实验的重复次数；
- `location`：本地调查位点的名称；
- `habitat`：生态生境分类信息；
- `date`：单条观测记录的采集日期。