[Babase] The public face of Babase: The Software

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Sun Mar 2 09:57:10 EST 2008


Looks good, thanks Karl. See below.


OI've made a page on the wiki to be the public face of the
> Babase software side of things.
>
> https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babasewiki/WhatIsBabase
>
> Perhaps this wiki page should be linked to from
> the Amboseli Baboon Project web page instead of
> the regular home page?  The new page is for
> the general public whereas the regular home page is
> primarily of use to the people who work with Babase.

My inclination would be to have the link be from the Babase home  
page. I can see an argument for both the home page and the ABRP site  
but I don't think it makes sense to link it only from the ABRP site.  
Currently, the link to the babase home page is on the ABRP site. It  
seems sensible to have, as the top link on the babase home page, or  
right under the wiki, the link to WhatIsBabase. Would this work for you?

Also, I have some comments:
You list the following broad data categories:
Group membership
Life events
Sexual cycle events (includes progeny)
Sexual cycle day-to-day status
Dyadic social interactions
Multi-party social interactions (in beta testing)

I think you need to add:
Social status (dominance rank)
Focal animal samples

Also, below that you say "Weather data tracking is designed but not  
implemented." I would suggest "Other data sets (including weather  
data tracking, genetic data, endocrine data, predation data, wounds  
and pathologies data, and several others) are either already designed  
but not yet implemented, or are in the design process."


>
>
> I am linking to this page from the Babase page on
> freshmeat.net, the dominant index of Free and Open Source
> Software projects.  The Babase freshmeat page is:
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/babase
>
> Y'all can change the wiki page.  You will need to contact me
> for changes to the freshmeat.net page.

Look good.

Thanks,
Susan


>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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