Funding
Sad to say the BES have decided not to fund us again, so for the third year running we will be without funds. Anyone with innovative ideas, drop us a line. Work will carry on on an entirely voluntary basis.
Team Members
I have been joined by Clive Massey, a database expert, ex Bath University, and he has already been through the database behind the scenes and tidied up any number of small problems, including accents on author names. It is good to have someone to bounce ideas off.
Progress.
Apart from the background database work, 15 species have had photographs added, and 23 have had additional photographs. 27 species have had descriptions added and ecological characteristics added. The Somerset Rare Plants Group have contributed photos and I look foward to more of them being uploaded.
Plans.
We hope to add direct links to the BRC insect database and to the UK moth database. This should decrease the potential workload for us in maintaining the insect database when there are experts beavering away maintaining these properly. Our data will remain online, but further and more detailed data will be available from these sources. We will enhanced our data with extracts from the TRY database system to which we are contributors.
Our next target is to redesign the main interface, allowing for easier search facilities
