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Update on Estonian plant database project
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Thank you, Peter. I will check out LUCID in more detail as soon as I can.
Dear group,
I'd like to introduce a simple idea for a web-based application. Some of this may have already been done, but I doubt in exactly the spirit I am proposing it here.
Let's say I am in Estonia and meet a botanist there. We do not speak ...
Renata, a quick update (already sent you an IM about this...):
--Still working on restoring the database completely
--Meanwhile extracted 644 latin names
--Matched 644 to 461 in USDA Plants Database
--Added and updated fields: plant family, En...
Renata,
Thanks. The pdf document you provided is a great help. I will try to get Skype installed (I have been told by many others too that it's a great application, didn't know it was made by an Estonian, cool!).
If I get involved in this projec...
Hi Matt,
Maybe this can help you to understand the existing structure of database:
http://www.folklore.ee/rl/fo/konve/2009/ftk/prese/renata.pdf
The language issue is a real problem, but at least it contains latin name and other lines can be just...
Hi Renata,
Thanks for the message. I would be happy to give any help possible. Looks like a cool site,
I can't read Estonian, so it makes it hard to figure out exactly what data I am looking at. If you could explain to me what you want to do (or...
Hi Matt,
Check out our website: herba.folklore.ee - we´d need a lot of help with it... Our IT-boy is overloaded with other work and we are actually in real trouble with being not able to develop it future as we´d like. Sorry, so far everything is...
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head.
For a while I tried to think through how to manage this (ca. 1992), and I did get somewhere with all that analysis. But in doing this, the required readings, analyses of philosophies, and cross-cultural researc...
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