[Babase] The public face of Babase: The Software
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Sun Mar 2 16:39:18 EST 2008
On 03/02/2008 08:57:10 AM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> Looks good, thanks Karl. See below.
>
>
> OI've made a page on the wiki to be the public face of the
>> Babase software side of things.
>>
>> https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babasewiki/WhatIsBabase
>>
>> Perhaps this wiki page should be linked to from
>> the Amboseli Baboon Project web page instead of
>> the regular home page? The new page is for
>> the general public whereas the regular home page is
>> primarily of use to the people who work with Babase.
>
> My inclination would be to have the link be from the Babase home
> page. I can see an argument for both the home page and the ABRP site
> but I don't think it makes sense to link it only from the ABRP site.
> Currently, the link to the babase home page is on the ABRP site. It
> seems sensible to have, as the top link on the babase home page, or
> right under the wiki, the link to WhatIsBabase. Would this work for
> you?
It was just a thought. I'm happy to have things as they are.
I've already linked the "Babase Software Project" page from the
Babase Help page and the Babase documentation page. I don't think
we need a link on the home page. Primarily because I can't think
of a pithy menu item-like bit of text to use as a link.
"About the Babase Data Management Software" might work but it
does not really fit into the page's purpose, which is to serve
as a menu for the people who are actually using Babase.
Anybody with a better idea can wack at the wiki until all is
good.
>
> Also, I have some comments:
> You list the following broad data categories:
> Group membership
> Life events
> Sexual cycle events (includes progeny)
> Sexual cycle day-to-day status
> Dyadic social interactions
> Multi-party social interactions (in beta testing)
>
> I think you need to add:
> Social status (dominance rank)
> Focal animal samples
>
> Also, below that you say "Weather data tracking is designed but not
> implemented." I would suggest "Other data sets (including weather
> data tracking, genetic data, endocrine data, predation data, wounds
> and pathologies data, and several others) are either already designed
> but not yet implemented, or are in the design process."
I like your plan. Will do.
I took the categories from the
titles of the ER diagrams, so, e.g., Group Membership
includes Social Status, etc. But I like the idea of more detail
as well as your wording vis present and future work.
>
>
>>
>>
>> I am linking to this page from the Babase page on
>> freshmeat.net, the dominant index of Free and Open Source
>> Software projects. The Babase freshmeat page is:
>>
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/babase
>>
>> Y'all can change the wiki page. You will need to contact me
>> for changes to the freshmeat.net page.
>
> Look good.
We now have a lot of categories.
I may take out the various "categories" from the freshmeat page
and say something sweeping. But I don't know what.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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