[Babase] ranks data -- conference needed?

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:14:23 -0500


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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