Re: [NTLK] Fieldworker

From: Brian (bmcewen_at_comcast.net)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 20:34:35 PDT


>From: Robert Benschop <rbenschop_at_euronet.nl>
>
>>On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 13:18 Europe/Amsterdam, Brian wrote:
>> If you guys haven't played with it already, Ethoscribe and
>> Enviroscribe are
>> very nice if you do the right sort of behavioural/fieldwork

>For the non initiated, could you explain in layman's terms what you can
>do with it exactly?

Well I think you looked at that Fieldworker review; www.timasci.com has
the other 2 softwares. Ethoscribe is made for logging behaviours quickly
by predefining individuals, actions, stop/start and the like; generates a
really nice summary of who was doing what to whom for how long :) type of
thing. Plus has some nice built-in analyses. It really would be good for
any type of event logging, not just behaviour- you could use it like
Blueprint, sort of, if you wanted. It handles literally thousands of data
points for us.

Enviroscribe is a neat way to make really nice forms and templates for
logging scientific data (or other data would be fine too). Coupled with a
little button (GPS Button sounds familiar, not sure if that's the right
name for a 2.x app though...) to insert GPS coordinates and you have a lot
of what is neat about Fieldworker.

The Fieldworker.com site is neat- how long has that been up? Seems like
only a few (6?) months ago the only Google hits you would get for
Fieldworker still resolved only to the ancient university site for the old
Newton version, other platforms were "in progress". Guess they got it
working...

I would very much like to play with a full Fieldworker, Newton-version.

Brian

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