[Babase] Collar Check Data

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Tue May 5 13:55:29 EDT 2009


Thanks Niki,
This all sounds right to me based on our discussion last weekend.
Susan

On May 5, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Niki Learn wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Due to ambiguity about how the data should be entered, collar check  
> data for 2008 was not entered into babase in any form.  This  
> included situations in which the GPS and VHF collars were physically  
> checked by the field team.  This includes other group demography  
> notes in which the team checked on collared individuals when they  
> came across a nonstudy group.  If a table specifically designed to  
> list collar checks were to be incorporated in future, we did not  
> want to have repeated data entered, so these data were marked but  
> not incorporated in the 2008 updates.
>
> At the database managers meeting on 2 May, we discussed this  
> situation and what elements of these data need to be entered into  
> babase.  We decided that collar condition does not need to be  
> entered into babase.  If collars were checked by remote signaling to  
> verify that they were working, this does not need to be entered into  
> babase.  However, if the team encountered collared baboons in the  
> field and checked on them physically, this should appear in the  
> census data.  Thus any collared baboons the team encounters in the  
> field, and which appear as collar checks in the other group notes,  
> will be entered into babase as demography notes in order to capture  
> the census data.  A list of such notes will be compiled for 2008 and  
> the data included in the next demography update.
>
> Thanks,
> Niki
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