UPDATE.txt :: UPDATE REPORT FOR ANDOSL DATA CORPUS :: update 8-JUN-1999
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    the master copy of this file is at "general_info/cd_doc/mark3"
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This report relates largely to the description of ANDOSL data that has been 
disseminated on CDROM but also can contain matters pertaining to the 
descriptive data as stored in the RDBMS at the central ANDOSL site at ANU 
and in the public WWW site of the ANDOSL project.
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SPEAKING TASK DESCRIPTION

The key "TSK:" is meant to be used as a label to point to a key-value-comment
file which contains further data keys which label specific aspects of a task.

In some early releases of ANDOSL this key has been erroneously applied to 
point to files which describe tasks in textual prose, normally in the form
of instructions to speakers. These files also have normally had a ".tsk"
name extension.

Note that in later releases the key "TIN:" <instruction_to_speakers> is used
and points to a textual file with name extension ".tin".

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SPEAKING TASK IDENTIFIER

The key "TSKID:" was used in early releases of sentence data rather than 
"PID:" for the <prompt_identifier>.

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ERRORS IN "MAP TASK" DDF FILES

The data key "TIN:" points to "and_maps.tin" but this file does not exist
in the /ddfs directory. The file in the /ddfs directory which provides the
<instruction_to_speaker> is in fact "tsk_map.tin".

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MISPLACED FILES

The data key "HTV:" points to "and_nist.txt" but this file does not exist
in the /ddfs directory where one would expect to find it. 

On SENTENCE CDROMs this file is found in the /doc directory
alongside the "gender-age-phonology" directories at the top level.

On MAP TASK CDROMs this file is found in the /doc directory
alongside the "gender-gender-relationship" directory/ies at the top level.

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ANOMALY FILES

The "anomalies" descriptor files pointed to by file_names at key "ANO:"
were entered into the system for speakers 1-200 only.  No anomaly data
for sessions involving speakers 201-264 have been entered.

The anomaly data key "XAS:" <session_information> did not appear in
early versions of "all_nsld.pro"

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