[Babase] ranks data -- conference needed?
Jeanne Altmann
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:28:10 -0500
great; we've got a plan,
j
At 03:18 PM 1/31/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Sorry for the delay in responding to this, but I wanted to try and
>understand the FTP process a bit more before writing back. What I gather
>is that FTP just copies files, it doesn't share or link them. So Susan's
>option 2 below with Leah FTP-ing the ranks.dbf file would work great if
>that sounds like a good plan with everyone else. Leah and I could
>coordinate a good time to both transfer the current ranks.dbf file to her
>computer and later transfer the updated ranks.dbf file back to my
>computer. That way I can be sure to not have the file open at the time
>she wanted to FTP and not make any changes to the file in the interim that
>she was working on updates.
>
>Catherine
>
>Susan Alberts wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Over the past 18 months or so I have been sending data to Daphne that is
>>meant to be entered in the ranks file of babase (it is data on male
>>ranks). This is combination of actual male rankings (e.g. for 2001 and
>>2002) and corrections of existing ranks. There are a number of these
>>files, which Daphne (mostly) kept good track of but never
>>entered, presumably because she did not have time.
>>
>>We need to figure out what to do. Options:
>>
>>1. Wait until the web-based version of babase is up and running and have
>>this be among the first tasks that is transferred to Duke. Until then,
>>live with incomplete and some incorrect ranks files for males.
>>
>>2. Have Leah enter them here (some manually, some using ranker) into
>>ranks.dbf, during a 2 to 3 day period when we know that this is going on
>>and no changes are made to the Princeton version of ranks. Then leah
>>sends the updated version of ranks to Princeton and that becomes our new
>>ranks file.
>>
>>3. Have Catherine enter them now.
>>
>>Becuase I am nervous about having these data piling up and not getting
>>entered I favor 2 or 3 but need input from others. So far we have avoided
>>solution 2 to these types of problems, for obvious reaons. Solution 3 is
>>presumably a problem for the same reason that Daphne never entered them
>>-- time constraints. What to do? Just wait until data can be entered from
>>both places? Do we need a conference call or should we do this by email?
>>
>>Susan
>
>
>
>--
>Catherine Markham
>Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
>Princeton University
>Phone: (609) 258-6898 Fax: (609) 258-2712
>
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