[Babase] Re: Datasets held at Duke

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:56:20 -0500


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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