Re: THE BOOK-WWW

John Laroche (Sabercat@ix.netcom.com)
Sat, 4 Feb 1995 13:27:46 -0800

You wrote:

>
>Pat and the rest of virtual & material cp world,
>
>WE NEED YOU (and your $.02)!
>
>(...)
>>and how it cries out for organizing and editing
>>to create a book or manual on everything we know about CP s in an
efficient
>>and easily retrieved form. This would be the ultimate FAQ resource for
CPs.
>
>Yes, indeed.
>
>As a prodromus for such a book, the www page has been installed. The
>information retrievable from this is until now rather incomplete, and
any
>contribution is most cordially invited.
>
>In Germany, the local cp society GFP has started a monographing project
>("Merkblaetter & Monographien", M&M) collecting available information
on
>cp. The work is organized in such a way that individual authors "adopt"
one
>or several species and try to find answers to a catalog of questions.
After
>some discussion of input formats and required information, a
standardized
>monograph framework was designed (available from Wolfram Diester or
from
>myself). Together with Rick and Barry, an English version of this
framework
>was created. I may send a copy of which to anyone interested.
>
>Presently, about 20 species of various genera are dealt with by members
of
>the GFP. This work is co-ordinated and edited by Wolfram Diester, and I
>have seen some really encouraging output already (monographs on
_Drosera
>rotundifolia_ and _Nepenthes khasiana_). The first printing (in German)
is
>scheduled for this year.
>an
>
>PS: Do not ask what the web page could do for you, but ask yourself
what
>you can contribute to the web page!
>
>
>
>
Count me in, I'll collect all the TC literature sources I have, scan
them and send them to you. Also, I can provide photos literature,
anything you want.
Let me know what I can do.

John

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