While work with raw data and images represents our primary
focus at this point in time, our long-term goal for this project is a full
digital flora that carries all content elements of a traditional floristic
treatment. This includes keys and descriptions. Our initial
objective in this area is to develop web-based systems that present the
client with a traditional view. Work in this area has produced a
finished product, a World Wide Web Key to the Grass Genera of Texas by
John E. Dawson III (TAES), and a rough prototype that deals with conversion
of a full floristic description/key file to a full text index.
World
Wide Web Key to the Grass Genera of Texas
Flora
of Brazos and Surrounding Counties (by Monique Reed - TAMU) - This
demo will search in index that carries families of the subclass Asteridae
as family-level documents. A search query string present in all documents,
such as "fruit", will return a listing of all documents in the index that,
upon selection, will return Ms. Reed's treatment of that family as it is
represented in the flora of Brazos and adjacent counties (central Texas).
A more limited query string, such as "corona" or "Solanum" will return
only the subset of documents that carrry a matching string. Links
inserted into this very preliminary indexing system are experimental.
CAUTION: This is a prototype
system that is under continuous development.
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