[Babase] RE: Ositeti groups vs subgroups
Niki Learn
nlearn at princeton.edu
Fri Feb 5 13:12:34 EST 2010
The advantage to keeping 6.0 open
> as
> a
> group would be that we wouldn't need the unidentified group code
> (6.9), we
> could just say 6.0 when we don't know which group it is.
I think you lose information that way. You won't be able
to tell if everybody comes back together for a day into
the single 6.0 group. It may not "matter" late in the game
because the individuals never re-constitute the original group,
but the data would look the same as early in the fission process
when the individuals do come back together into one large group.
Niki:
Yes, I guess it would look like that. So that's a good reason to make a
clean break and have 6.0 end when 6.1 and 6.2 begin. Thanks.
> This should also moot the subgroup notes too, right? The
> individuals are put into CENSUS in their subgroup so there's no
> longer a need for a note that says who's in what subgroup.
> Right?
>
>
> Niki: Yes, those particular subgroup notes go away. Since the Other
> Group
> Notes that make up a lot of our Ositeti sightings aren't in the
> subgroups
> notes file anyway, I only got to delete three subgroup notes, and
> then
> I
> altered the two with Kernel's group to make it clear that it is part
> of
> Jill's group. And the subgroup file as it now exists does not tell
> you who
> is in which subgroup anyway. It just gives information about when
> and
> where
> there was a subgroup. The individuals are listed on paper though.
There's no place for "where" in Babase now so I guess we are
looking at some sort of extension to be able to record this.
Niki:
There's lots of where data - it just isn't in babase, except sometimes
within the comment column. Then there's the loads of GPS data... No idea
if there are any plans to include that in babase somehow or just keep it
separate.
P.S. Can you configure your email program to work like every
other email program on the planet and have it indent or otherwise
mark what you're replying to so that you don't have
to write "Niki:" and it's easier for us to tell who wrote
what?
Niki:
I don't know. Can I? After all it is Microsoft...
You'll recall I tried color coding or bolding my replies and you didn't like
that because you don't use HTML-enabled email, unlike (pretend that's in
italics) everyone else on the planet... And look how messy your email makes
those old lines by cutting them up into pieces... Ick, I hate that. ;)
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