A wais index for Names in Current Use Project

[Jim Croft]

All the available generic files that consitute the electronic data of
the Plant Names in Current Use Project have been concatenated into two
large files (fossils and non fossils) on the Australian National Botanic
Gardens gopher.

This gopher can be found at 155.187.10.12 port 70, or selected from the
Harvard University Biodiversity Gopher (huh.harvard.edu port 70) or a
number of biolgical biological gopher sites.  If you are not running a
gopher client, telnet to your favorite public gopher site (such as
info.anu.edu.au and log in as info - the Australian National University
gopher) and find us under other gophers or similar (hint - Australia is
in the Pacific).  If you do not have access to telnet - it is a bit
sad...

The NICU files can be found under ANBG Information Services/ANBG IBIS
Database Gateway/Plant Names in Current Use Project, or under /Tools and
Reference Utilities/Plant Names in Current Use Project.  The records in
these files are identical to those archived on Taxacom, and as such do
not reflect all the corrections that have been sent in over the past
months.

The two files, 'names-in-current-use' and 'nicu-fossils' are now
searchable through a common wais index.  These files are very large (2
Mbyte and 1.75 Mbyte respectively) so do not attempt to save/or mail
them unless you have a lot of space and a lot of time.

There are in fact two indices to these files: one on only the first line
of the record (ie. the genus name); the other on the complete record
(name, author, protologue citation, typification, family, etc.).  Using
either of these indices with the simple boolean operators of and/or/not,
it is possible to perform an interesting array of queries.

If you really want copies of these two datafiles for local indexing, we
could probably find a way of sending them if you can't afford the time or
space on the network.  The individual components can always be found via
gopher or ftp (/pub/standards/iapt-ncu) to huh.harvard.edu.  Be warned -
wais generates files of over 15 Mbytes for one index and 5 Mbytes for the
other.

Please look for your favourite genus or family and if it not there or
hopelessly wrong, tell someone.

jim
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Jim Croft                  [Herbarium CBG]           internet: jrc at anbg.gov.au
Australian National Botanic Gardens                     voice:  +61-6-2509 490
GPO Box 1777, Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA               fax:  +61-6-2509 599
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