Questions for Annotators
Introduction : Explain purpose of interview.
Have you used JGI's Integrated Microbial Genomes system?
• What role does manual annotation play in your work?
• Breakdown of work area: What's what? Explanation of physical workspace structure. Looking for piles of paper, desk structure, communal vs. personal, etc.
• Please show us the process of doing a manual annotation. (Identify tasks. Can you break down your main task into a series of small sub-tasks?)
• What are the main problems? What kind of improvements can you propose?
• What information do you need in order to do an annotation? What resources do you currently use while annotating? (include anything from google to post-it notes...)
• What role does collaboration with other annotators play in your work? If you do talk to other annotators, what do you communicate with the other annotators about? Do you talk to them all at once?
• Would you want to share/be able to see other people's work in progress (tentative annotations)? Would you want to limit information to you yourself/a specific group/ everyone?
• How much information do you share?
• Do you need to track the sources of all the data?
• How do you know when you have done enough annotation on a genome to call it a new version?
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