[Babase] New kind of Psion sample
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:30:59 -0500
On 2004.10.12 14:01 Daphne A. Onderdonk wrote:
> Susan Alberts wrote:
>
>> Karl,
>>
>> We haven't yet told you that we have just introduced a new kind of
>> sample with the psion. This sampling will be of short duration (ie
>> we started it in Sept and should be finished in Oct), but Daphne
>> will have to deal with it soon.
>>
>> One question that Jeanne and I have not discussed is whether we want
>> these data incorporated into the database. Jeanne, please give your
>> input on this as you will be the primary user of the samples.
>>
>> I think that we could do it either way -- Daphne could manually pull
>> them all out of the Psion samples before she inputs the Psion points
>> into babase. Or we could ask you to write a conversion program that
>> pulls out this sample type as a separate set of files.
>
> So are these data part of the same Psion files as the regular points
> data, or are they collected as their own separate files? (Maybe I'm
> just not getting this from your description.) If they are part of
> the same files, then I guess we need to alter the Uppoints program to
> put these lines somewhere else when the regular points data are
> updated. If they are separate files, then we can worry about it
> separately, and update the regular points data as we normally do. I
> guess either way, I think it would be best to use a new/altered
> updating program rather than doing something with it manually (easy
> for me to say, right, Karl?), in part because the header information
> can easily be separated into various columns that way.
These are my thoughts exactly!
Karl <kop@meme.com>
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