[Babase] Re: body part
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Tue May 18 22:08:51 EDT 2010
Lacey and I are looking at using the wounds and pathologies
body part encoding with the darting tick/parasite count.
On 05/18/2010 03:10:42 PM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
> Karl,
>
> I just started taking a stab at the body parts support codes..
> and
> realized that while the codes are very clear, they are 'un-sided'. so
> arm is
> arm, not left or right... :-\ do we want another column? Or diff
> codes... I
> have attached the diagram with codes.
They are also missing any indication of inner/outer.
And there is, to my mind,
the problem of "aggregation", e.g. the entire foreleg is
12 _and_ 13 and the entire rear leg is 31 _and_ 32.
I suspect that by the time this is worked out different
codes would be simpler.
The "ultimate" encoding would be hierarchal, so you could
refer to a sub-part or it's parent or (perhaps) a whole side
of the body. There would have to be separate body parts
for left and right too. Eventually the teeth would fit in
too. I have a feeling that nobody cares right now
about having a unified encoding scheme, even to the extent
of integrating wounds and pathologies and darting tick/parasite
counts.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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