[Babase] Re: Datasets held at Duke
Leah Gerber
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:15:09 -0500
Thank you Susan, That is very helpful.
Quoting Susan Alberts <alberts@duke.edu>:
> Dear Leah,
>
> Thanks for the email. I've forwarded it to babase.
>
> In fact datasets are held at both places -- our goal has been is
> that there should be complete sets of the "raw" data in both places.
> The paternity genotypes and the hormone data are probably the only
> exceptions.
>
> The larger question is, once we have babase up and running, and it is
> being backed up regularly, AND we have more data sets incorporated
> into it (GPS data, meteorological data, hybridity, genetic data,
> hormone data), how do we want that to work? There are two parts to
> this question: (1) where will the "raw" data reside, and (2) which
> team will be responsible for entering it into babase?
>
> Certainly the raw, paper data (all the paper that is generated in the
> field) will still be at both places, as it is now.
>
> The electronic data generated in the field (Psion, GPS, weather data
> from the new weather station) are currently sent to both places, but
> we have divided responsibility for them so that GPS and Psion are
> handled at Duke and weather at Princeton. This seems good for now
> although it is not implemented totally and can't be until babase is
> online.
>
> The "processed" data -- hybridity that is entered in an excel sheet
> and summarized after the paper data come from Amboseli, the genotypes
> and the hormone data -- we need to think about how to incorporate and
> where responsibility for each set lies.
>
> In March 2005 we made some decisions about which data sets would be
> handled by which team -- I realize that you need this but it slipped
> my mind to send it to you because we did it a year ago -- and I've
> pasted that into this email, below:
>
>
>
> Princeton
> Demography
> Reproduction
> Female ranks
> Meteorology
>
> Duke
> Agonism, grooming interactions, M&C
> Psion
> Gps
> Male ranks
>
>
> Data sets waiting to go forward (these are data sets that need to be
> incorporated into babase eventually and are in varying states of
> readiness for this)
>
> o Predation data
> o Wounds / Pathologies
> o Intergroup encounters [other groups]
> o Male movements [other group & censuses & Dewey notes]
> o Paternity genotypes
> o All group ranks
> o Ranks & consorts for _'s
> o Hyridity
> o Endocrine data
>
> Smaller bits
> o Male maturation
> o Male age estimates
> o Male canines
>
>
> Hope this helps, let me know if more questions.
>
> Susan
>
>
> >Hi Susan, I have been going through my notes from Stephanie and am trying
> to
> >piece together an understanding of which datasets exist at Duke that
> >are not in
> >Babase. This is what I have so far. Do you know of any others? We
> >are trying to
> >get an understanding about the datasets that are being consistently updated
> as
> >well as the ones that are not.
> >
> >1. Male movement (extra male data)
> >2. Paternity genotypes
> >3. Hybridity
> >4. GPS
> >
> >Thanks, Leah
>
>
> --
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> Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham NC 27708
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