Notes From Nature Talk

Ornithological - Do we need to write out full info each time?

  • Sylverone by Sylverone

    When we encounter the " (quotation mark) to indicate a repeated entry, should we just enter that, or should we repeat the appropriate line?

    Also, do we need to repeat the year and batch number for each Registration number, even when the repeats are left blank on the page?

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  • darryluk by darryluk

    Treat every line as an individual record. So yes, type each line in full. Otherwise someone searching the database would get " " and not have a point of reference to know what it meant.

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  • Sylverone by Sylverone

    Okay. The reason I ask is that the oldWeather folks have advised people to go ahead and enter the quotation marks, since they developed a program that will automatically take the data from the previous entry. But this is a different project, different tools and rules. Thanks for the help.

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