[Babase] The public face of Babase: The Software

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Sun Mar 2 16:39:18 EST 2008


On 03/02/2008 08:57:10 AM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> Looks good, thanks Karl. See below.
> 
> 
> OI've made a page on the wiki to be the public face of the
>> Babase software side of things.
>> 
>> https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babasewiki/WhatIsBabase
>> 
>> Perhaps this wiki page should be linked to from
>> the Amboseli Baboon Project web page instead of
>> the regular home page?  The new page is for
>> the general public whereas the regular home page is
>> primarily of use to the people who work with Babase.
> 
> My inclination would be to have the link be from the Babase home  
> page. I can see an argument for both the home page and the ABRP site  
> but I don't think it makes sense to link it only from the ABRP site.  
> Currently, the link to the babase home page is on the ABRP site. It  
> seems sensible to have, as the top link on the babase home page, or  
> right under the wiki, the link to WhatIsBabase. Would this work for  
> you?

It was just a thought.  I'm happy to have things as they are.

I've already linked the "Babase Software Project" page from the
Babase Help page and the Babase documentation page.  I don't think
we need a link on the home page.  Primarily because I can't think
of a pithy menu item-like bit of text to use as a link.
"About the Babase Data Management Software" might work but it
does not really fit into the page's purpose, which is to serve
as a menu for the people who are actually using Babase.

Anybody with a better idea can wack at the wiki until all is
good.

> 
> Also, I have some comments:
> You list the following broad data categories:
> Group membership
> Life events
> Sexual cycle events (includes progeny)
> Sexual cycle day-to-day status
> Dyadic social interactions
> Multi-party social interactions (in beta testing)
> 
> I think you need to add:
> Social status (dominance rank)
> Focal animal samples
> 
> Also, below that you say "Weather data tracking is designed but not  
> implemented." I would suggest "Other data sets (including weather  
> data tracking, genetic data, endocrine data, predation data, wounds  
> and pathologies data, and several others) are either already designed  
> but not yet implemented, or are in the design process."

I like your plan.  Will do.

I took the categories from the
titles of the ER diagrams, so, e.g., Group Membership
includes Social Status, etc.  But I like the idea of more detail
as well as your wording vis present and future work.

> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am linking to this page from the Babase page on
>> freshmeat.net, the dominant index of Free and Open Source
>> Software projects.  The Babase freshmeat page is:
>> 
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/babase
>> 
>> Y'all can change the wiki page.  You will need to contact me
>> for changes to the freshmeat.net page.
> 
> Look good.

We now have a lot of categories.
I may take out the various "categories" from the freshmeat page
and say something sweeping.  But I don't know what.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                  -- Robert A. Heinlein



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