[Babase] Disperse Dates in Babase

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Thu Sep 18 09:37:40 EDT 2008


Lacey,

All of these changes and the reasons for the changes will be documented 
in the changelog on the wiki, right?

Thanks,
Tabby

Lacey Maryott wrote:
> In evaluating whether or not our disperse date criterion are still the 
> best to use (it turns out they are), Susan and I found some errors in 
> the way disperse dates were assigned from 1992-1999 (See documentation 
> on wiki for assignment rules.) We have gone through and checked them 
> all against the system of assigning dispersedates, and it looks like 
> only a few disperse dates were incorrect in the db. Below I have 
> included the names of those individuals affected by this error, as 
> well as their old and new disperse dates. Their disperse dates will be 
> changed today.
>
> If you have any questions about this problem/resolution, please feel 
> free to ask!
>
> WAL - old disp = 1993-02-03; new disp = 1993-02-04
>
> TUZ - old disp = 1993-07-11; new disp = 1993-06-14
>
> DAV - old disp = 1996-03-26; new disp = 1996-02-16
>
> BEA - old disp = 1996-09-04; new disp = 1995-12-23
>
> DIV - old disp = 1999-08-03; new disp = 1999-07-08
>
> Also, DAL and JIK disperse dates will be removed from the db, as there 
> is not enough information to inform their disperse dates, formerly 
> entered as 1993-06-11 and 1995-12-16 respectively.
>
> Again, if there are any questions, please ask :)
>
> Lacey and Susan
>

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Tabby Fenn
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