[Babase] Reproductive cycle docs for review again

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Mon Dec 5 18:10:37 EST 2005


Here are the major changes:

Created a CYCLES table.
Added views.
Moved PCS color observations into it's
  own table and linked directly to the female.
Link Bdates to cycles the same way sexskins
  are linked to cycles.

I've incorporated Jeanne's comments into the
documentation.  It's great to get such detailed
feedback.  (I seem to be 100% wrong when it comes
to using "which" and "that", which I suppose is
better than 50% wrong, which is what I would be
if I just used the words randomly.)

I'm a little leery about carrying on a dialog inside
a Word document, but that's what's happening.
I'm attaching Jeanne's Word document in a separate
mailing to everybody to keep from messing up the
list archives.  Jeanne's commented in blue, my comments
seem to be in hot-pink.

If the design is right we can focus on getting it
working.  Let me know where we're at.  I assume
we'll have a go-round and then run the result
by Jeanne.  Meanwhile I'll be working on the
social interactions.  You should expect to
see something ready for review soon.

Again, last chance to change table, view, or
column names.  (These are important because
vocabularly so affects the way we think
about the data.)

Here's the relevant sections needing review
(including new stuff in already reviewed sections):

1. Introduction
     Other Resources
2. Babase System Architecture
     Table Overview
     Entity-Relationship Diagrams
        (again, use the pocket reference for
        easy diagram viewing)
     Views
3. Baboon Data: Primary Source Material
     PREGS (Pregnancies)
     CYCGAPS (Gaps in Female Cycle Observations)
     CYCLES (Female Sexual Cycles)
     CYCPOINTS (Female Sexual Cycle Events)
     SEXSKINS (Sexskin Turgesence Measurements)
     PCSKINS (ParaCallosal Skin observations)
     DEMOG (Demography Notes)
       (just the new tip and caution (BIOGRAPH has a tip too))
4. Baboon Data: Analyzed
     The Reproductive State Tables
     Sexual Cycle Determination
     Automatic Mdate Generation
6. Support Tables
     PCSCOLORS (ParaCallosal Skin Colors)
7. The Babase Views
     BIOGRAPH_SORTED (BIOGRAPH, sorted for maintenance purposes)
     PCSKINS_SORTED (PCSKINS, sorted for maintenance purposes)
     MATERNITIES (completed reproductive events)
     CENSUS_DEMOG (CENSUS extended with DEMOG information)
     CYCPOINTS_CYCLES (CYCPOINTS extended with CYCLES information)
     CYCLES_SEXSKINS (CYCLES extended with SEXSKINS information)
B. Alteration Of Sexual Cycle Ids (Cid)
C. Changes to Babase between 1.0 and 2.0
     Changes To The Sexual Cycle Information

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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