Re: Pedigree Analysis -- was Database for Tracking Irises

Actually, it has been my intent all along to use the pedigree information in the online checklists to feed a pedigree database and search engine that could list parentage out some (selectable) number of generations.

It would take some specialized programming and would be an intimidating task.

Additionally there are some significant problems that would probably require manual data entry to overcome: incorrect notations in pedigrees, non-uniform formatting of entries, and worst of all - lack of information in the '49 and '39 checklist entries.

Maybe it would just be better to manually enter all the data, I don't know as I have not taken a serious look at it yet.. Heck, I am just now startiin to farm out the '59 CL and the 2000-2002 R&Is for data entry checking and tabulation.

It is at least in the plans.

If anyone has ideas, I am ALL ears.

Thx

John


On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:15 PM, DFerguson@cabq.gov wrote:

I don't know if this suggestion has been pursued or even considered, maybe
it's not practical. However, it's something that I think would prove
extremely useful. I know it has been touched upon occasionally in the
past, and the 1995 web site by David Pane-Joyce covering Conjuration and
its ancestors seems a good example of how it might work. David's web page
has proven extremely useful to me, and it only covers one cultivar (but the
ancestry of that one cultivar darn near covers the basics of ancestry for
all tall bearded Iris!). Basically I think I'm just restating David's
proposal here.

David also touched on other useful information such as ploidy.

This would be a comprehensive data base that does nothing but track Iris
pedigrees. In this data base, all known Iris pedigrees would be included
and linked in such a way that each name would pull up the full known
pedigree when it is accessed. Perhaps there could be options to make the
search go back only so many generations vs. all the way to the start?
Perhaps an option to go the other way and pull up all known descendants.

In an ideal world, this would be linked to a photo data base as well, but
that's a whole other subject.

This is would be something in a central location, perhaps through AIS?
Seems it could be linked to the registry data files somehow???

It seems that once in place, it wouldn't take that much maintainance, and
it wouldn't have to be terribly huge, especially if cross linked to the
registry database so all the written descriptions and such are available
and not repeated.

Just a thought.

I'd volunteer, but I'm not retired yet, too busy. Perhaps some day.


Dave

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