Program description pages are generated by programs that
produce WWW pages for local (TAMU-BWG) informatics systems.
These provide an archival reference,
a reminder of how things were done, a tracker of various files involved, and general information.
CRONWWW1.IPF, written in KnowledgeMan (KMAN) programming language, manipulates
KMAN data tables to produce a series of 12 HTML files - one for each angiosperm subclass,
and this page.
The program 'walks' through the KMAN table CRONQ3.ITB, which carries all family names
listed in A. Cronquist's 1988 summary of flowering plant classification. Each name accepted by
Cronquist is used as a query string (synonyms are used for the family finder) and other rank names (Subclass, Order)
are used to structure the output. Using the KMAN 'pluck' function, the KMAN table FULLFAM1.ITB is queried,
using the index file FULLFAMI.IND, and the numerical field VASCWWWO is checked for the 'plucked' record.
The table FULLFAM1.ITB is acted on by each updating run of VASCWWWO.IPF which builds a formated ASCII file
from a series of 'resource' data tables carrying internet URLs and family names. The file - VASCWWWO.TXT -
is indexed by the 'MG' system with each URL/Family name representing a 'document'. If 'documents' have been produced for a given family
the value of FULLFAM1.VASCWWWO increases by 1. Thus, if this value is greater than 0,
CRONWWW1.IPF will print the name with a query link to the indexed file. Selection of highlighted family names
of the highlighted family name will issue a query to the indexed file. In response to this query, all 'documents' carrying a matching family string
are returned to the user as a formatted (HTML) page.
The URLs utilized to search the indexed file function via CGI programming
and 'full text' indexing performed by Erich Schneider, of the
Texas A&M Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.
CRONWWW1.IPF, written by Hugh Wilson, is one element of a larger
experimental system for WWW-based vascular plant informatics now under development
by the Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group.
Questions, corrections, comments, or pointers to new sources can be directed to
Hugh Wilson.
Last run of CRONWWW1.IPF: 04/03/99
Links established on 11 subclass pages from 'resource' tables:
- Cronquist families listed: 389
- Thorne families linked: 348
Start run: 08:34:21
Total links established: 5674
End run: 08:34:32
Return to the Botany 201
or the Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group Homepages
This page produced by cronwww1.ipf on: 04/03/99