On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:33:44 -0800 Dylan Beaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > some of the people in my lab are interested in collaboratively > compiling a large quantity of environmental data- each user appending > several hundred measurements of several variables every week. > > They are currently emailing around a spread sheet file and there have > been numerous data accidents. Now they are asking to put the file > onto a shared drive, so that they can access it remotely. This sounds > like a terrible idea to me- even worse than the previous attempt. > > The data are essentially rows and cols of numbers that are added to > and edited weekly. > > At first I thought subversion might be helpful, but revision control > doesn't work so well with binary data (excel files)... unless there > is something I don't know about. It would be hard to detect > conflicts, or to merge data. However, it would allow for timestamps > and revision numbers to provide some level of authority. > > Designing some kind of database-driven system seems like a logical > choice, but I do not have the time to do this. Perhaps there is > already something out there. > > Does anyone have some insight into how to solve this data management > nighmare? In what format do your colleagues generate their data to begin with? Is this append-only or are there updates too? --Ken -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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