[Babase] six month plan
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 10 May 2004 13:04:17 -0500
On 2004.05.06 15:49 Susan Alberts wrote:
> 12. We need to keep a running list of all errors and whether we have
> fixed them, and I think it can't just be the babase mailing list.
> Steph, you and I need to come up with a system for this, and for
> indicating how we prioritized the errors and what their status is.
> Can you put this on your list of things we need to talk about please?
> Anyone else want to give input on this?
You could just keep a list and post it periodically to the mailing
list in it's entirety. Or we've got a babase web site and could
use that. This would involve telling everybody how to modify
the babase web site via login.biology.duke.edu.
> -Karl has made a suggestion that we give all dead animals a dcause
> (currently all prior to mid-2001 have "no dcause"). I think this
> needs to be done at Princeton, as we have an informal policy (which I
> think we should adhere to rigidly) that we won't make permanent
> changes to the database at Duke until the new system is up and
> running. If we start making some changes at Duke at this point we
> run a real risk of losing track of which copy is the "real" copy.
> Especially if the change takes days or weeks, and some changes are
> being made to the same file at Princeton, even inadvertently. So,
> Jeanne and Daphne should come up with a plan for doing this.
This should be straightforward. Use the database to update
en-masse all the dead individuals with no dcause and change dcause
to either 'unknown' or something else.
Karl <kop@meme.com>
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