Re: AIS: REF: AIS as International Registration Authority

In a message dated 12/8/04 8:42:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
rpries@sbcglobal.net writes:

<< Any professional archivist will tell you the longest lasting records are 
printed matter on acid proof paper.  >>

GIGLEE prints from digital images of the original plant might be useful to 
consider for some documentation applications.Of course, you will have the same 
problem with any picture that you have with real herbarium specimens, to wit: 
Big plants at natural size make big images, and so big printing problems and 
big storage issues, and reduction of the image beyond a certain point may defeat 
the entire purpose of the excercise. 

Since issues of image durability are being discussed I think these questions, 
unsporting as they may be, should be asked: How long do you think these 
images will actually be needed? Are you attempting to document every registered 
Iris cultivar into perpetuity? Practically speaking, how long do you anticipate 
most of these cultivars will remain in commerce? In mainstream gardens? In the 
crosshairs of Iris scholars? 

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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