In very recent years I’ve been downloading some of the articles that either describe new species (in the families I like!) or have split or lumped some sister species I didn’t know about, or (the ones I really like) they’ve DNA sequenced a family or tribe sometime revealing new relationships we didn’t know or guess before. A lot are free to download these days, but a few still aren’t. Should we send the PDFs of the ones we downloaded to you guys to store on the wiki as well? Or if copyright laws are involved, maybe we could make a page where we can put the links to them in some quick but organized fashion? I suppose we could put them on the Photographs page with the genera or species they belong with, but then we’d have to hunt through them all to see something new, whereas on a separate page we could see that something new was published just by checking that page. --Lee Poulsen San Gabriel Valley, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a Latitude 34°N, Altitude 340 ft/100 m > On Mar 10, 2024, at 15:46, Arnold Trachtenberg via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > Thank you Mike. > I agree we should try to preserve all the material that's out there. > I have to publicly thank Mike and Paul for all their work on Herbertia. > It's a monumental undertaking. > Arnold > > On Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 04:18:04 PM EDT, Michael Mace via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > These are great! Very good content, often written by people I respect, some > of them folks who are no longer with us. It's so nice to hear from them > again. > > Also, the scans are beautifully done. > > Many thanks to everyone who worked on this. > > The more source material we can get into the wiki, the better. In the near > future, I predict that we'll be able to feed publications we host, the info > in the wiki, and the archives of the PBS mail list into a generative AI > model. We'll be able to ask it anything about growing bulbs, and it'll give > us good answers. I know there's a lot about AI that scares people, but when > properly configured it is incredibly good at summarizing things. That won't > replace these archives; you'll always want to be able to go back to the > source material. But we can make our accumulated experience a lot more > accessible. At my work we're in the process of using it to digest a ton of > our support database, and it's already working well. > > Mike > San Jose, CA > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum https://… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum https://… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…