[Babase] Collar Check Data
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Tue May 5 13:55:29 EDT 2009
Thanks Niki,
This all sounds right to me based on our discussion last weekend.
Susan
On May 5, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Niki Learn wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Due to ambiguity about how the data should be entered, collar check
> data for 2008 was not entered into babase in any form. This
> included situations in which the GPS and VHF collars were physically
> checked by the field team. This includes other group demography
> notes in which the team checked on collared individuals when they
> came across a nonstudy group. If a table specifically designed to
> list collar checks were to be incorporated in future, we did not
> want to have repeated data entered, so these data were marked but
> not incorporated in the 2008 updates.
>
> At the database managers meeting on 2 May, we discussed this
> situation and what elements of these data need to be entered into
> babase. We decided that collar condition does not need to be
> entered into babase. If collars were checked by remote signaling to
> verify that they were working, this does not need to be entered into
> babase. However, if the team encountered collared baboons in the
> field and checked on them physically, this should appear in the
> census data. Thus any collared baboons the team encounters in the
> field, and which appear as collar checks in the other group notes,
> will be entered into babase as demography notes in order to capture
> the census data. A list of such notes will be compiled for 2008 and
> the data included in the next demography update.
>
> Thanks,
> Niki
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