Documentation-Interview 1

An interview with pukkamustard on methodology and technicalities.

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"BSAM" vs "ISAM"? Which one is prevalent in our case? What are the specific consequences? 20230918T160130--data-set-ibm__s360
Are there any significant differences between the results/output of PyNIPS and the ASCII-rendered datasets provided by NARA? Specifically: what does a comparison reveal for Heshes7172nipsreportascii and 20231030T130700--heshamla67nips-nipsext-info__hes_nips?
"QTAB" is also the neame of a processor. We need a way to disambiguate and investigate relations between table an processor. How did the "dynamic table" work? 20231018T115442--qtab__hes
How can it be that PSYOPSIS "logrec" length is in ASCII? 20231117T095507--psychological-operation-information-system-psyopsis-files-march-1970–february-1973__nara_nips

"What was the procedure for reverse-engineering NIPSTRAN? Which features did you want to keep, which did you want to change? Is PyNIPS significantly different from NIPSTRAN? In what? Is PyNIPS partly extensible/generalizable to parse similar file formats? Can FFTs be unambiguously identified?"
"What is the expected/intended outcome of publishing PyNIPS? What additional information/documentation should be attached?"
"Please describe your first thoughts/impressions when inspecting the HES data. Did you initially see (significant) differences between the datasets?"
"Which information was/is crucial to understand the HES/OPSANAL system?(for you)"
"Which properties of data and system appear to be significant in order to describe functionality?"
"Which properties of data and system are required for simulation of the system?"
"Are there any fundamental differences between working in a scientific/historic project and other forms of employment?"
"Did you encounter difficulties in understanding or operationalizing tasks and research-goals?"
"Do you see similiartities between the systems we investigate and modern database-management systems?"
"Is ther a way to present/document intellecutal/analytical contributions of ALL project-members?"
"Which principles of collaboration, software-development, data-analysis, open source and oen science can and should we promote with the project?"

Relation Masterfile to individual datafiles? Can we reconstruct update/maintenance procedures? 20231018T114532--hamlet-evaluation-system-hes-basic-master-file-71969-11973__hes
HES was revised twice. Is it possible that the ecistence of 3 FFTs is a result of these revisions20231017T092321--heshes7172nips__nips ? What would be an approach to invesitagte this?
What information do "file maintenance" and "statistical" logical records contain? What can be done with them? 20231018T092546--nips-data-file__nips
We need to collect and resort research questions on the fly. New note for that has been created at: Research Questions Ctrl + All