UPICT Template

UPICT publishes protocols in a standardized UPICT template.

A standard template has the advantages that:

protocols can be compared more easily
users know where to look for certain details
implementers can find the material appropriate to them
it is clear to protocol authors what topics/details should be addressed in a UPICT protocol
it is clear when a topic/detail has not been addressed

Tips for Extracting Protocols into the UPICT Template

Mark-up a copy of your original document as you do the extraction.

When you copy a chunk of text from your original, highlight it
When you are "finished" extraction, you can check the un-highlighted text to see if you have missed migrating anything important

Consider extracting several related protocols in parallel.

Take a single UPICT Template document and simultaneously extract several similar protocols into it putting material from different source protocols in different colors
Then compare each of the different source paragraphs and use that to draft a consensus paragraph
Once the text is stable, create copies of the document, each with just one of the source protocols
The result is a UPICT document for each protocol and a UPICT document for the consensus protocol
This approach allows you to batch process, to easily see the areas of agreement and divergence, and focuses consensus discussion on one issue at a time

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