HERB - Re: sources and names

[Katherine Blackthorne]

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> From: Sara Harless <evaine at glenmar.com>
> 
<snip>
 
> I've built many databases both for myself and for my before-retirement 
> employer, GTE. To start, I would need to know database fields. So what 
> data-bits do you want in this database? Start with 1) current scientific 
> name, 2) most common modern name, 3) alternate names 4) notes on 
> historical and modern references and uses. What else do you want? and I 
> think I'd better dig out my programming notes on relational databases
> 
> Evaine the crazed in the Middle

How about 5.)common period names (when available) and 6.) any previous
scientific name (sometimes things get re-classified.)
I realize that these two fields might not apply to all entries, but it
seems like part of what we're trying to do...
--Katherine
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