RE: AIS: CAT: my wish list
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  • Subject: RE: AIS: CAT: my wish list
  • From: P* A* <p*@mindspring.com>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:56:33 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
I've mentioned this before but I'll recap. 

I'm working on a database using avery inexpecsive program from www.flowerstep.com.  Pending AIS's approval I should have it ready by the end of the year.  It creates pedigrees, granted in their most simplest form, back to grandparents. It does not take pedigrees forward but the AIS online database can do that and the spreadsheets mentioned below should be able to do that as well.

Along the way I'm creating a spreadsheets and sibling sheets in Excel that if translated into the correct program format will be searchable by simply typing in the name of a cultivar or sorting it based on various characters.  

I'll also note that having gone through the majority of the AIS online database (E-Z so far) there are many errors (sdlg# formatting, cultivar spellings, and parentage).  I am correcting them in my database along the way where I can by contacting the Hybridizers and making notes of the one's I can't.  The Hybridizers should be submitting correction forms for the ones I've found. Keith Keppel and Paul Black can attest to how much of a pest I'm being.  

My spread sheet is also incorporating information from various websites and compiling it all in to one place so that searching ofr someofthemostbasciinformation isn't some right of passage we must go through to find what we want.

Paul Archer
Indianapolis


-----Original Message-----
>From: CarolKenl COLEMAN <ciop2606@msn.com>
>Sent: Jul 18, 2012 11:56 AM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: RE: [iris] AIS: CAT: my wish list
>
>Like Linda I have to spend time looking the pedigrees up and taking them to my
>data base that I created in Lotus....yes the old, old program. It works for me
>still so have not bothered to change from it to something else. I would also
>love to see the pedigree program be very handy.  But it would be a huge
>undertaking for sure.  Not sure about Smart Draw...since I had not study on
>this problem.  I do not know how many would use the information but I find it
>very valuable.  We need to figure out some way to keep Mike Lowe's work on the
>historics.  Indeed we may need a major computer nerd to help us find a
>program. It appears that the Daffodil society had someone write the program
>especially for their platform.  I wonder what platform they are using?  Maybe
>the secret to their success is indeed that platform.
>
>Carol L. Coleman
>
>C. Iris On Pond
>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:12:46 -0400
>> From: robertpries@embarqmail.com
>> To: iris@hort.net
>> Subject: Re: [iris] AIS: CAT: my wish list
>>
>> Linda, et al; You have hit upon one of my dreams. I would love to see
>pedigrees in the Iris Encyclopedia. Perhaps I am thinking too far ahead in
>that we still have cultivars to enter. But I look at what the Daffodil Society
>does and drool. They can present a tree going backward or the tree of progeny
>going forward, and where they have images those appear in the tree also. A
>magnificent job.
>>
>> Only just a couple of weeks ago Mike Lowe and I were discussing how to get
>the many pedigrees he has worked up for historics into the wiki.
>Unfortunately, as yet, I do not have a clear route as to how to integrate
>these programs. I wish there was some computer nerd I could go to and say this
>is what I want, how can you get me there? I contacted the Daffodil Society and
>they told me they wrote their programs to fit their platform and they would
>not be transferable.
>>
>> It is still a dream! I just looked at some videos this morning for a new
>$500 program called Smart Draw. It looks like it could do what I want but
>probably not within the Encyclopedia. There are makeshift possibilities but so
>far I have not figured out how to do this with the elegance I would like.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> I agree.
>> Francelle Edwards
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Linda
>> Mann
>> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:16 AM
>> To: iris@hort.net
>> Subject: [iris] AIS: CAT: my wish list
>>
>> ...I wish pedigrees for all the current intros were available somewhere so
>I
>> wouldn't have to buy catalogs.  Or try to <find> the catalog that has
>> disappeared into a stack of iris stuff...
>>
>> Alternatively, I wish all the online catalogs/viewing sites for new intros
>> would include pedigrees.
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7b
>>
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