[Babase] ranks data -- conference needed?

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:18:38 -0500


Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in responding to this, but I wanted to try and 
understand the FTP process a bit more before writing back.  What I 
gather is that FTP just copies files, it doesn't share or link them.  So 
Susan's option 2 below with Leah FTP-ing the ranks.dbf file would work 
great if that sounds like a good plan with everyone else.  Leah and I 
could coordinate a good time to both transfer the current ranks.dbf file 
to her computer and later transfer the updated ranks.dbf file back to my 
computer.  That way I can be sure to not have the file open at the time 
she wanted to FTP and not make any changes to the file in the interim 
that she was working on updates.

Catherine

Susan Alberts wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Over the past 18 months or so I have been sending data to Daphne that 
> is meant to be entered in the ranks file of  babase (it is data on 
> male ranks). This is combination of actual male rankings (e.g. for 
> 2001 and 2002) and corrections of existing ranks. There are a number 
> of these files, which Daphne (mostly) kept good track of but never 
> entered,  presumably because she did not have time.
>
> We need to figure out what to do.  Options:
>
> 1. Wait until the web-based version of babase is up and running and 
> have this be among the first tasks that is transferred to Duke. Until 
> then, live with incomplete and some incorrect ranks files for males.
>
> 2. Have Leah enter them here (some manually, some using ranker) into 
> ranks.dbf, during a 2 to 3 day period when we know that this is going 
> on and no changes are made to the Princeton version of ranks. Then 
> leah sends the updated version of ranks to Princeton and that becomes 
> our new ranks file.
>
> 3. Have Catherine enter them now.
>
> Becuase I am nervous about having these data piling up and not getting 
> entered I favor 2 or 3 but need input from others. So far we have 
> avoided solution 2 to these types of problems, for obvious reaons. 
> Solution 3 is presumably a problem for the same reason that Daphne 
> never entered them -- time constraints. What to do? Just wait until 
> data can be entered from both places? Do we need a conference call or 
> should we do this by email?
>
> Susan



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Catherine Markham
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