AIS: online R&I
- To: i*@egroups.com
- Subject: AIS: online R&I
- From: l* M*
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 07:55:00 -0400
It's so FAST! I have a smallish computer and am phone line limited on
speed of downloads, so often have time to twiddle my thumbs a lot when
downloading info. Mallorn is fast, so I guess I should't have been
surprised that this link would be fast too.
NICE.
Along with instructions, some explanation of all the cryptic symbols in
the name list would be helpful.
I agree that the search capability needs to be within fields, at a
minimum these five
field one NAME
field two HYBRIDIZER - YEAR - SEEDLING CODE
field three TYPE - HEIGHT - BLOOM SEASON - REBLOOM
field four COLOR
field five PARENTAGE - ORIGINAL SOURCE
That would minimize, for example, turning up VIOLET HARMONY as a name or
a parent in a search for violet colored flowers.
There would still be a bit of ambiguity, for example if an original
source (the nursery that introduced the iris) was named ORIENTAL IRISES
and one of the parents was ORIENTAL RUG.
That would leave ambiguity between year and seedling code (i.e., a
search for all the irises introduced in 1979 would also return irises
with 1979 in the seedling number, and a search for all the seedling
codes with 79 as part of the code would also return everything
introduced in 1979). Always a bad idea to assume that nobody will ever
need to search for something, but is it worth the extra effort?
I also agree that most folks are most likely to want to search for
irises by type (TB or other), color, or by name (not parentage).
Thinking of all the questions we see on list related to figuring out
switched labels, finding something in a color class to add to a
collection, as well as introductions by particular hybridizers.
One additional thing that I would like to see added to the search site
is a list of hybridizers and where they were selecting seedlings at a
given time. Most of the information is in the back of the 80s
checklist. That data set would need some input from somebody for
hybridizers who have moved around - two that come to mind immediately
are Walter Moores (who has both Texas and Mississippi bred irises) and
Mid-America (sorry, I don't know who that is - but they were in Texas
and now are in Oregon).
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
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