[Babase] ranks data -- conference needed?

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:42:13 -0500


Sounds great. You two decide when the right window of time for this 
to happen should be. I think a week should be set aside. Truth is we 
don't know how long it will take, but a week is probably ballpark and 
we will just do as much as we can during that window. .If it not 
enough then we will reassess.

After you two have identified which week, Leah and i will strategize 
how to approach the problem. Leah doesn't know how to use ranker. My 
suggestion is that we do the manual updates on those ranks for which 
we (including Daphne) identified manual as the best approach. Then 
Leah and Catherine have a ranker tutorial by phone.

Let us know when you've found the right week, preferably soon-ish.

Susan

>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
>
>
>
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>Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
>Princeton University
>Phone: (609) 258-6898 Fax: (609) 258-2712
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