[Babase] The public face of Babase: The Software

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Mon Mar 3 01:14:02 EST 2008


On 03/02/2008 03:39:18 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> 
> On 03/02/2008 08:57:10 AM, Susan Alberts wrote:

>>> https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babasewiki/WhatIsBabase

>> 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 like your plan.  Will do.
> 
> I took the categories from the
> titles of the ER diagrams, so, e.g., Group Membership
> includes Social Status, etc.  But I like the idea of more detail
> as well as your wording vis present and future work.

Ok.  I have updated the page (as part of my personal
"release the code to the world" work.)

I bullet pointed your "other data set" list and added a new
paragraph.  You will want to read the result.  (Also tweaked
the "System Design" docs, 2nd paragraph and footnotes,
while I was at it.)

Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                  -- Robert A. Heinlein



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