Babase -- The Wiki
Contents
Using Babase
Accessing Data
Query, download, or modify db content with SQL statements (preferred SQL interface)
Upload your own data to the database
Browse the database via phpPgAdmin
Working Data Drafts - Before using any of the data linked or referred to on this page, please contact the Babase Administrator
Learning
The Babase Wiki -- The Babase website, you can help improve it!
Babase Help -- Other help links
Babase Best Practices -- Tips and suggestions to keep in mind while using the database
Babase Quiz -- New Users must take this quiz before starting work with babase. See Niki or Jake for information
Reference Material
The Babase System Technical Specifications (Web, un-paginated) (Web, paginated)
Babase user FAQs
The archived_data schema
Other Babase Documentation - Wish List, To Do's Etc
Data Management
Data Management Tasks - primarily for use by data managers
Status of Babase Datasets
Dataset |
Last Updated |
Data Included |
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Group Membership and Life Events* |
11 Aug 2023 |
Data through Jun 2023 |
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Census backfill |
6 Dec 2023 |
Complete for Alto's from Sep 1980 onward and for Hook's from May 1983 onward. Not begun for Lodge group and its fission products. Most other groups censuses have also been backfilled with the exception of Stud's group. |
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Demography note backfill |
6 Dec 2023 |
Not begun for Lodge and its fission products. For other groups, complete from 1989-onward. |
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Sexual Cycles** |
11 Aug 2023 |
Cycling data through Jun 2023; sexskins and repro notes through Dec 2022 and backfilled through 1997 (except for Joy's and Nzige's 1997 data, which throw a lot of errors) |
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Interaction Data |
08 Feb 2024 |
Data through Dec 2023 |
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SWERB Data |
2x/ every week |
With a few exceptions, all data until ~(at most) 7 days previous to today. Exceptional cases have to wait for a quarterly update, the most recent of which added data through Dec 2023 |
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Rankdates Table |
23 May 2023 |
Data Through Mar 2023 (by dates assigned to obviously-adult immigrants and males > 7yrs, 5mos and residing in nonstudy groups updated through same quarter as demography and repro tables) |
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Ranks Table |
Jun 2023 |
ALM/ADM through Dec 2022; ALF/ADF through Dec 2022 |
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Min_Maxs view |
11 Aug 2023 |
temp and rain data from Aug 1976 through Jun 2023 |
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Digital Weather |
11 Aug 2023 |
Meteorological data automatically collected by machine, through Jun 2023 |
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Wounds and Pathologies |
11 Aug 2023 |
tables and views beginning with wp_ through Jun 2023 |
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Princeton babase_pending tables |
6 Dec 2023 |
neonatals, subgroups, intergroup_encounters, hybridity_rawmorpho, deaths, dispersenotes, & corpse_info through Sep 2023 |
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Duke babase_pending tables |
08 Feb 2024 |
Predation_By, Predation_On, Human_Disturb through Dec 2023 |
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Inventory |
Updated constantly, as needed |
Tissues and extracted DNA's/RNA's that are or ever have been at Duke, Notre Dame, or the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig |
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Genetic Markers: msat_reactions |
Apr 2018 |
Reaction info through plate 415 |
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Genetic Markers: msat_results |
Apr 2018 |
Results data through plate 415 |
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Genetic Markers: Genotypes |
Dec 2018 |
All finalized microsatellite genotypes through end of year 2018 |
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Hormone Samples |
(Not recorded) |
Fecal samples through 21 Jun 2021 |
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Hormone Preps and Results |
14 Mar 2023 |
All lab work done through 06 Mar 2023. Estrogen: through 06 Mar 2023. Glucocorticoids: through 22 Dec 2022. Progesterone: through 27 Feb 2023. Testosterone: through 09 Oct 2019. Thyroid hormone: 24 Jun 2022. |
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Source Code
All of the Babase source code is freely available right here.
Acknowledgments
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation for the supporting the collection of the majority of the data stored in the database; in the past decade in particular we acknowledge support from IBN 9985910, IBN 0322613, IBN 0322781, BCS 0323553, BCS 0323596, DEB 0846286, DEB 0846532 and DEB 0919200. We are also very grateful for support from the National Institute of Aging (R01AG034513-01 and P01AG031719) and the Princeton Center for the Demography of Aging (P30AG024361). We also thank the Chicago Zoological Society, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation and the National Geographic Society for support at various times over the years.
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