Forwarding for any assistance in the matter please. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mary Barkworth <[email protected]> Date: 1 July 2012 18:45 Subject: eFlora of India and Indian Herbaria To: jmgarg1 <[email protected]>
Do you know any one in you group that would be interested in making herbarium records available online? I am working with US herbaria in this regard and am very interested in encouraging herbaria in other parts of the world to do so. It is a great way to show others the information in herbaria - thereby increasing their importance, while ensuring that futue collections provide even more information than the ones presently in herbaria - and that the next generation of students record information in a way that is more easily assimilated into global information systems. There is good software available, SYMBIOTA, for free (http://symbiota.org) and it displays information in a manner that can appeal, I think, to a wide variety of users. For an example of a web site built using it, see either http://intermountainbiota.org (try Silene acaulis or Achatherum hymenoides as test species; or try both together). There are also Symbiota -based sites for macrofungi, bryophytes, and lichens and I am working on one for grasses that I would love to see be global. It does not work just now (I have to sort out a problem with names and then work out and easy way to import data from other networks) but the site is http://usuherbarium.usu.edu/grasses/. The one for Pakistan is http://usuherbarium.usu.edu/. It has about 11 records in it - all from the herbarium here (Logan, Utah, USU). I am hoping to visit Pakistan next spring and help them contribute records to it - but making it a site for South Asia would be fine with me - as would having it established over there - it was just easier for me to set up a working site here than there. Any site can be global in extent. The major problem is maintaining the list of names. That is where I messed up on the grass site - and summer is not a good time to sort such things out because of meetings and vacations. The person in charge of the fungi site said that, if my colleagues in Pakistan start collecting fungi, he will give be happy to accommodate them on the mycoportal site. As I said, I am very interested in making contact with anyone working in Indian herbaria who would be interested in this. I hope that you can suggest whom I might contact, or perhaps you could forward this to someone interested. They can be at a small herbarium - size is unimportant. Getting started and convincing others that the results will be useful to researchers and teachers is important. Sincerely, Mary Barkworth [FYI: Co-chair US Virtual Herbarium project; lead editor, grass volumes in Flora of North America; Director of Intermountain Herbarium] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of jmgarg1 Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 12:06 AM Subject: [Taxacom] Efloraofindia Hi, Btw, are you interested in Indian Flora which is also closely related to butterflies, birds, other aspects etc.? If so, why don't you join 'efloraofindia' e-group <http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix> (more than 1870 members & 1,18,000 messages on 31.5.12) & interact a bit about our flora & bring beauties from your lens, if any? *Efloraofindia (eFI in short) is the largest google e-group in the world in this field* & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India *devoted to creating awareness, helping in identification etc. along with discussion on & documentation of Indian Flora.* Efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home> (eFI in short) website helps in documenting flora of India that is being discussed on efloraofindia google e-group along with supplementing the working of the group. *It has the largest database on net on Indian Flora with details of more than 6500 species (and with more than 1,00,000 pictures at efloraofindia e-group links). *A species database has also been created here family wise & then followed genus wise. Intent of this database is compilation of all the posts on 'efloraofindia' e- group so that it's useful to all concerned as all the data about a particular species will be available under a single head & easily searchable. *Around six thousand & five hundred species' pages *of seed plants, ferns, fungi & others are available with details for those species which have already been discussed in effloraofindia e-group. It is the largest database on net on Indian Flora. Should I send you an invitation for you to become a member? You can also visit & join it by clicking at 'efloraofindia' e-group<http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix>. In this way, you may choose from one of the four options given below, as at present on an average around 100 messages per day in around 30 mails per day are received: *'Email - send each message as it arrives'* option, '*No Email; read this group on the web'* option, *'Abridged Email; send a summary of new activity each day'* option or *'Digest Email'* option- send all new messages in a single daily email' *Pl. also mention your full name, occupation (optionally: qualification, professional attachments etc.) and place & why do you want to become a member? * *You can also forward it to anybody interested.* * * If you are already a member, please ignore this request. -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1870 members & 1,18,000 messages on 31/5/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. _______________________________________________ Taxacom Mailing List [email protected] http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom The Taxacom archive going back to 1992 may be searched with either of these methods: (1) by visiting http://taxacom.markmail.org (2) a Google search specified as: site:mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom your search terms here -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1900 members & 1,20,700 messages on 30/6/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
