[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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Susan Alberts, Associate Professor
Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham NC 27708
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