[Babase] demog update Q for Jeanne and Susan

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Wed Aug 20 10:49:13 EDT 2008


On 08/20/2008 07:11:09 AM, kfenn wrote:
> Hi again.
> Follow-up comments to Susan's reply are below.
> 
> Susan Alberts wrote:
>> Hi Tabby,
>> 
>> On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:04 PM, kfenn wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jeanne and Susan:
>>> 
>>> 1)  Do you (collectively or independently) have any designs on  
>>> how/if the monthly "Collar Check" data are entered into the  
>>> database?  Would you like the data entered as demog notes for the  
>>> collared individuals or do you want the collar information to  
>>> ultimately reside in some sort of table or something else that  
>>> stands alone?
>> 
>> Offhand, this doesn't seem like Babase information, although the  
>> general collar list does seem like something we eventually want to  
>> put in babase. Jeanne?
> 
> Guess I asked about this because the collared individual is named and  
> the location/state or health of that individual is often reported.    
> Collar checks occur often enough on non-census days that this  
> qualified as demographic info we probably want to capture.  The  
> functioning of the collar itself probably belongs elsewhere....so I  
> guess the main question is how to deal with the two components of  
> collar checks (census/health of individual versus how the collar is  
> functioning) and whether these should be broken up or ultimately  
> captured in one table only.   Probably something you want to chew  
> over with Jeanne.

My inclination is that collar functioning does not belong with
demographic data, although they could be linked (by a database
relation rather than just a date) if that's important for some
reason.  I'd guess date/sname combination is good enough if
anybody wants to connect the dots.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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