[Babase] follow up on yesterday's conference call

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Fri Mar 26 10:23:42 EDT 2010


Hi all,

Lacey and I are having a meeting and she raised the fact that she,  
like Niki and Catherine, has often felt the need to pull data out of  
the "demography notes" section of the field data the first time she  
goes through them (thinking to herself, oh yes someone is going to  
need this) and so we both really want to thank Niki and Catherine for  
raising this. It will really help the problem of reinventing the  
wheel, and we both feel that it is a very good use of time over all to  
pull the data out the first time in some way.

I also realized that I am not totally sure how we are going to go  
forward. I think what we agreed is that Niki will, for a few years  
worth of data, pull out all the potential incidents that would be  
indexed (in an excel file?) and then we revisit (in a month? a couple  
of weeks?) and start categorizing and prioritizing these data types  
into "missed data in existing categories", "potentially useful  
information some day but we don't yet know how we would use it", and  
finally "probably don't bother entering."

is that about right?

Thanks again,

Susan



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Susan Alberts, Dept of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham NC  
27708. Phone 919-660-7272, FAX 919-660-7293





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