[Babase] demog update Q for Jeanne and Susan
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Wed Aug 20 10:49:13 EDT 2008
On 08/20/2008 07:11:09 AM, kfenn wrote:
> Hi again.
> Follow-up comments to Susan's reply are below.
>
> Susan Alberts wrote:
>> Hi Tabby,
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:04 PM, kfenn wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jeanne and Susan:
>>>
>>> 1) Do you (collectively or independently) have any designs on
>>> how/if the monthly "Collar Check" data are entered into the
>>> database? Would you like the data entered as demog notes for the
>>> collared individuals or do you want the collar information to
>>> ultimately reside in some sort of table or something else that
>>> stands alone?
>>
>> Offhand, this doesn't seem like Babase information, although the
>> general collar list does seem like something we eventually want to
>> put in babase. Jeanne?
>
> Guess I asked about this because the collared individual is named and
> the location/state or health of that individual is often reported.
> Collar checks occur often enough on non-census days that this
> qualified as demographic info we probably want to capture. The
> functioning of the collar itself probably belongs elsewhere....so I
> guess the main question is how to deal with the two components of
> collar checks (census/health of individual versus how the collar is
> functioning) and whether these should be broken up or ultimately
> captured in one table only. Probably something you want to chew
> over with Jeanne.
My inclination is that collar functioning does not belong with
demographic data, although they could be linked (by a database
relation rather than just a date) if that's important for some
reason. I'd guess date/sname combination is good enough if
anybody wants to connect the dots.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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