[Babase] New kind of Psion sample

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:30:59 -0500


On 2004.10.12 14:01 Daphne A. Onderdonk wrote:
> Susan Alberts wrote:
> 
>> Karl,
>> 
>> We haven't yet told you that we have just introduced a new kind of 
>> sample with the psion. This sampling will be of short duration (ie 
>> we started it in Sept and should be finished in Oct), but Daphne 
>> will have to deal with it soon.
>> 
>> One question that Jeanne and I have not discussed is whether we want 
>> these data incorporated into the database. Jeanne, please give your 
>> input on this as you will be the primary user of the samples.
>> 
>> I think that we could do it either way -- Daphne could manually pull 
>> them all out of the Psion samples before she inputs the Psion points 
>> into babase. Or we could ask you to write a conversion program that 
>> pulls out this sample type as a separate set of files.
> 
> So are these data part of the same Psion files as the regular points 
> data, or are they collected as their own separate files?  (Maybe I'm 
> just not getting this from your description.)  If they are part of 
> the same files, then I guess we need to alter the Uppoints program to 
> put these lines somewhere else when the regular points data are 
> updated.  If they are separate files, then we can worry about it 
> separately, and update the regular points data as we normally do.  I 
> guess either way, I think it would be best to use a new/altered 
> updating program rather than doing something with it manually (easy 
> for me to say, right, Karl?), in part because the header information 
> can easily be separated into various columns that way.

These are my thoughts exactly!

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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