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Pipelines for generating a standard data format for bird data
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Pew pipeline #139

Closed zuzulaz closed 3 years ago

zuzulaz commented 3 years ago

I uploaded what I have done so far. There are two files, one where I basically only copied the general structure of the function from other pipelines. The other file is temporal one, where I work on the functions. So far is quite messy and with a lot of notes, I will clean that as they get checked and clarified.

zuzulaz commented 3 years ago

Regarding the Individual data, the multiple records were caused by the RingSeason variable, where I kept all years, not just the first one, I will correct that.  One thing, in the protocol, the RingSeason is defined as "The breeding season (year) when an individual was first ringed.", what I find a bit confusing, as it seems to me it refers more generally to "was first captured". In particular in individuals, that were ringed previously and we do not have the detailed information in the data available about when it was.

LiamDBailey commented 3 years ago

I would assume in most (all?) populations that there are not individuals that were ringed before their first capture, because that would mean they were either a) ringed by somebody else at the same site or b) immigrated from another site where birds were being ringed. I guess this is possible at PEW because PEE is close, but I would assume that for every bird the first capture date is also the first ringing date. Maybe check with the data owner when you meet with them. If he did not ring all the birds himself then we need to find out who did and where we can get that data (possibly they were first ringed in PEE)