Re: [Aroid-l] What happened to CATE-Araceae site?

From: Tom Croat <Thomas.Croat at mobot.org> on 2020.02.09 at 17:58:30(24318) Dear Nils: I can answer this question. When Kew stopped supporting the CATE site originally, specifically the Lucid Keys, I adopted the keys and have been adding species to those keys for many years so that for example we have added about a thousand species to the Anthurium key. So the existing CATE key would no longer be reliable at all. The problem is that most of the species are not yet published so the key has not yet been published. Tom HTML +More From: aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com On Behalf Of Nils Weessies Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 6:02 AM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] What happened to CATE-Araceae site? Dear Anna, Are the Lucid keys accessible online in any way? Many of the new world aroids here in botanical gardens in thd Netherlands are mis- or unlabeled. Kind regards, Nils Op do 6 feb. 2020 12:50 schreef Anna Haigh : Dear Sid and all, This site has recently gone down, and we are just looking into what the problem is. In the meantime, you can access it here: http://araceae-e--monocot-org.scratchpads.eu/ Unfortunately the eMonocot site which held the keys went a few years ago, some of the data from that site (minus the keys and some other stuff) is now on http://powo.science.kew.org/ But the site you first mention has a much richer data and we hope to keep it going in some form. I hope this helps, and it is always good to hear that it is still used. It helps the case to keep it going, so many thanks! All the best, Anna On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 4:47 AM Greg Ruckert wrote: As one of the data inputers, problems started arising when the UK Govt reduced funding to Kew. I stopped working at that point and do not know what has happened since. A lot of hours went into the project. Greg On 6/02/2020 2:19 pm, Tom Croat wrote: Dear Sid: The CATE site was completely abandoned by KEW and I am uncertain why. I think that it may have been closed for security reasons but I have also heard that it was a difficult site to maintain. I remember Anna Haigh telling me that they were intending to come up with another format and she gave a talk about this in the Monocots Conference in New York. For me the greatest loss was that the CATE site was also where they housed the Lucid keys to both Anthurium and Philodendron. I hope eventually to be able to come up with a similar interactive website, either through MO or the IAS website to make those keys, and others that I have developed, available to the public. Tom From: aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com On Behalf Of Siddharth Naveenachandran Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 2:38 PM To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject: [Aroid-l] What happened to CATE-Araceae site? Hi All, Does anyone know what happened to the http://araceae.e-monocot.org/ site? It was my go to site for botanical descriptions and references. I mailed their helpdesk at enquiries@emonocot.org and it bounced back. For those of you not aware of this site you can refer to this reference on it: http://www.aroid.org/aroideana/getarticle.php?key=MDM4NzEwNg==D -- Cheers Sid _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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