User Documentation
The Jalama system can be used to generate data entry applications from EML documents that describe a dataset. These applications can then be deployed to a network of handheld devices for in-field data collection. After this data collection, the data stored on these portables can be uploaded, sychronized, and managed with Morpho. The general workflow is to create or obtain an EML document that has a "dataTable" element for which a data collection application is required. Then, after installing the Jalama-Morpho plugin, use Morpho to generate the data entry application and deploy the applications to handheld devices which have the Jalama handheld application installed. Send the handhelds out to the field with some data collectors and then synchronize the data within Morpho upon their return to the lab.
A typical workflow would be:
1) Using Morpho, either create a new data package, or open an existing datapackage that describes your data collection protocol, including definitions for the required entities (tables) and their attributes (columns).
2) When you have the datapackage open in Morpho, click the "Create Data Entry Form" button on the toolbar, or select "Create Data Entry Form" on the Data menu. Follow the instructions to generate your form.
3) Make sure your field devices are connected to the same network as your Morpho machine, start Jalama on each device, and click the "synchronize" button to download the new form. Now you can take the devices into the field and collect your data
4) After data collection is complete, connect the field devices to the network and synchronize again, which will upload all the collected data to the morpho machine (NOTE that Morpho must be running during synchronization)
5) Finally, in Morpho, click the "Import Field Data" button on the toolbar, or select "Import Field Data" on the Data menu. Follow the instructions to import the new data and merge it all together into a new datapackage.
Below are three vignettes showing the use of the Jalama system:
Use Jalama-Morpho plugin to create a data entry application from an EML document
Synch handheld with the Jalama-Morpho system and collect data
Upload the data from the handheld back to the Jalama-Morpho system and create a new EML document.