Table 1.

Proportion of time spent on curation tasks for the two datasets analyzed in this study (na = not applicable)

Curation tasks	FC dataset	CA only dataset
Locating literature, creating PDFs	2.9	na
Creating matrices, entering free-text taxon names, characters and character states; proofreading data	9.8	na
Total data preparation	12.7	na
Character annotation	35.5	100
Taxon annotation	3	na
Total annotation work	38.5	100
Anatomy ontology work	22.5	na
Taxonomy ontology work	16.4	na
Quality ontology work	2.6	na
Total ontology work	41.5	na
Team discussions and software	7.3	na

The first three bold, italicized rows represent categories for the total (sum) of the values of the rows above them. The last bold, italicized row is a category with only one value.