Thanks, Kunhikannan ji. But what we are talking is it put it on the net so that it is easily acessable to all e.g. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200018953 (net is the furure).
2009/5/4 J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > Here is a reply from C KUNHIKANNAN <[email protected]>: > "Dear friends, > Flora of India project is on. so many volumes has come out in print form > vol. 1 to 6, and 12, 13 . by Botanical survey of India with funds from Govt. > of India. with some time we can expect full set of flora. A Small country > like Bhutan, flora consists of three volume with 8 books. Our country is > great with so much of diversity, and new discoveries are coming out from the > botanists and new generation research workers are interested mostly in lab > oriented research. This is the pathetic situation systematic facing now. > Further, Cetain state floras are also came out as printed books. CDs are > available for identication of species. eg Kerala Flora by Dr. N. Sasidharan, > KFRI, Peechi, Kerala. > kunhikannan" > > > 2009/5/4 Tabish <[email protected]> > > >> Instead of straightaway demanding images for all the plants, first we >> need a searchable database of all plant species where the botanical >> description, distributions and flowering/fruiting time is given. >> This should not be such a difficult job, although requires lot of >> hard work. After all, the botanical description of all the plants is >> already compiled in print volumes of floras of different regions. We >> would only be digitizing the existing information. >> Adding pictures could be a second step, or, can run side by side. >> That is the more difficult part which involves correctly identifying >> plants in the images by experts. >> Lets hope somebody comes up with this project. >> Best wishes >> - Tabish >> >> On May 4, 1:00 pm, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Garg ji, >> > >> > In real sense to prepare on-line edition of flora of India much >> effort is >> > required. I have taken over 300,000 pictures. Over 40,000 are on-line, >> so >> > far. These pictures are taken in Chhattisgarh only. But still this >> effort >> > seems like a drop in knowledge ocean. >> > >> > Similarly, in the field of Ethnobotany it seems that previous workers >> have >> > not done the documentation by heart. As individual effort, CGBD (Offline >> > Database on Chhattisgarh Biodiversity) is touching 1000 GB i.e. over 50 >> > million pages only on Type II Diabetes, much more than TKDL having 30 >> > million pages for all diseases in expense of millions. You know that I >> have >> > not taken even a pie from anyone for this work so far. >> > >> > Similar is the condition in the field of Ethnoentomology. >> > >> > In Indiantreepix we are fortunate to have workers like you. I feel that >> now >> > time has come to extend support to innovative workers in India not to >> > research organisations investing time for improving the language of >> research >> > publications. >> > >> > regards >> > >> > Pankaj Oudhia >> > >> > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:20 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > On net search we always come across 'Flora of China', "Flora of >> Pakistan' >> > > or 'Flora of Nepal' etc. >> > > Why don't we have 'Flora of India' ? >> > > -- >> > > With regards, >> > > J.M.Garg >> > > "We often ignore the beauty around us" >> > >> > > Creating Awareness about Indian Flora & Fauna: >> > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> > > For learning about our trees & plants, please visit/ join Google >> e-group >> > > (Indiantreepix)http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en >> >> >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > "We often ignore the beauty around us" > Creating Awareness about Indian Flora & Fauna: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > For learning about our trees & plants, please visit/ join Google e-group > (Indiantreepix) http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg "We often ignore the beauty around us" Creating Awareness about Indian Flora & Fauna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 For learning about our trees & plants, please visit/ join Google e-group (Indiantreepix) http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
