[Babase] ranks data -- conference needed?

Jeanne Altmann babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:57:46 -0500


Catherine and I just talked, and we are aiming for option 2 below.  She 
will send a followup email.  If we need a conference call to finalize this, 
let us know.
jeanne


At 11:14 AM 1/31/2005 -0500, you 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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