Re: AIS: 'Bored' and the Print Index

From: Irisborer@aol.com

In a message dated 11/11/1998 5:10:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
wmoores@watervalley.net writes:

<< omebody please bring me up-to-date on this printed
 index and tell me why I am supposed to do handsprings all around the room
 over this announcement. >>
 
Well Walter, maybe I'm more excited than you are.  But if you read what Ruth
and I wrote, you'd know that this is the first step to getting all the R & I
information into a searchable database.  This is an important first step...
slow because of copyrights and approval requirements... but let's look at our
glass as half-full.   We are progressing toward the dream of an electronic
database - and at warp speed, as compared to activity up till now.

The index will, of course, be in electronic form... but having it on disk
really wouldn't save much because the value of this index will be two-fold:

1.  To help hybridizers easily see if a name is available to them (when
registering an iris)
2.  To cut down the juggling act when you need to look up a particular
cultivar and don't know which book to start in.

There are over 40,000 iris, boys and girls.  60% of the R & I information is
already in electronic form, but you can imagine the amount of work out there,
and the desire of everyone involved to put out as useful a tool as is
possible.

After all... imagine how cranky you folks would get if we did a half-cocked
job  (:

Kathy Guest in E. Aurora, NY
worshipping at the throne of Howard Hughes

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