[Babase] Re: Datasets held at Duke

Leah Gerber babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:15:09 -0500


Thank you Susan, That is very helpful. 

Quoting Susan Alberts <alberts@duke.edu>:

> Dear Leah,
> 
> Thanks for the email. I've forwarded it to babase.
> 
> In fact  datasets are held at both places -- our goal has been is 
> that there should be complete sets of the "raw" data in both places. 
> The paternity genotypes and the hormone data are probably the only 
> exceptions.
> 
> The larger question is, once we have babase up and running, and it is 
> being backed up regularly, AND we have more data sets incorporated 
> into it (GPS data, meteorological data, hybridity, genetic data, 
> hormone data), how do we want that to work? There are two parts to 
> this question: (1) where will the "raw" data reside, and (2) which 
> team will be responsible for entering it into babase?
> 
> Certainly the raw, paper data (all the paper that is generated in the 
> field) will still be at both places, as it is now.
> 
> The electronic data generated in the field (Psion, GPS, weather data 
> from the new weather station) are currently sent to both places, but 
> we have divided responsibility for them so that GPS and Psion are 
> handled at Duke and weather at Princeton.  This seems good for now 
> although it is not implemented totally and can't be until babase is 
> online.
> 
> The "processed" data -- hybridity that is entered in an excel sheet 
> and summarized after the paper data come from Amboseli, the genotypes 
> and the hormone data -- we need to think about how to incorporate and 
> where responsibility for each set lies.
> 
> In March 2005 we made some decisions about which data sets would be 
> handled by which team -- I realize that you need this but it slipped 
> my mind to send it to you because we did it a year ago -- and I've 
> pasted that into this email, below:
> 
> 
> 
> Princeton
> Demography
> Reproduction
> Female ranks
> Meteorology
> 
> Duke
> Agonism, grooming interactions, M&C
> Psion
> Gps
> Male ranks
> 
> 
> Data sets waiting to go forward (these are data sets that need to be 
> incorporated into babase eventually and are in varying states of 
> readiness for this)
> 
> o	Predation data
> o	Wounds / Pathologies
> o	Intergroup encounters [other groups]
> o	Male movements [other group & censuses & Dewey notes]
> o	Paternity genotypes
> o	All group ranks
> o	Ranks & consorts for _'s
> o	Hyridity
> o	Endocrine data
> 
> Smaller bits
> o	Male maturation
> o	Male age estimates
> o	Male canines
> 
> 
> Hope this helps, let me know if more questions.
> 
> Susan
> 
> 
> >Hi Susan, I have been going through my notes from Stephanie and am trying
> to
> >piece together an understanding of which datasets exist at Duke that 
> >are not in
> >Babase. This is what I have so far. Do you know of any others? We 
> >are trying to
> >get an understanding about the datasets that are being consistently updated
> as
> >well as the ones that are not.
> >
> >1. Male movement (extra male data)
> >2. Paternity genotypes
> >3. Hybridity
> >4. GPS
> >
> >Thanks, Leah
> 
> 
> -- 
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> Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham NC 27708 
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