[Babase] Stop times in Actor_actees

Lacey Maryott Roerish lkm9 at duke.edu
Tue Jun 29 18:23:46 EDT 2010


Karl,

     This update seems to be coming with lots of new upload issues.  I have
finished the Psion and adlib uploads that I normally do, with the exception
of one psion file which I need to re-enter by hand as the psion faultered
when converting the file.  However, I have now gotten to the point of
extracting the adlibs from Courtney's psion data.  I have them all extracted
and now have files that are ready to upload.  My question is, these are all
data that have time stamps associated with them, which I Would hate to lose
since we already have them attached to the data. However, they ALL have only
start times and no stop times, as there are no Consorts, only M,E,G,A (haha
mega..). So, if I upload directly into actor_actees without a stop time,
will it fill in the stop time with the start time as it does with regular
psion files?

Looking at the old foxpro data (aka data that was uploaded before Babase
2.0) it looks like it used to be the case that the times would just match,
but in the newer data, starting in 06B with the first Babase 2.0 upload
(where I have been leaving stop blank in excel files for handwritten data
for M and E) stop is just blank.
Am I doing something wrong? Is this ok?

The files I will be uploading have the following columns:
date, actor, actee, act, start

Should I add a stop column and just leave it blank?

The documentation says:

Stop:
The time the interaction stopped or, in the case of all-occurrences data,
the time the interaction was recorded in the field.

At any rate, I'm not sure it makes a difference if stop is Null or matches
start.. I just wanted to know what to expect, and couldn't discern that from
the documentation.

Thanks!
Lacey

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Lacey K. Maryott Roerish
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
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Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu
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