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General Data for Species Maniltoa polyandra

Webmaster's Notice on Developing
Woodworking and Numeric Test Areas

The original mandate that started the TAXA Wood Knowledge Base was actually to locate and document as many species of woods and woody plants. The research that has been done over the last decade has brought forth a massive collection of data, most of it still to be added into TAXA's database tables. There is so much to add infact, that it could take as much as 2 years to do all the entry!

Because of the massive amount of work to be done in the near future on completing certain programming tasks and, far more, the huge amount of labor that will be needed to finally include the research data found over the past decade, it has been decided to have a lengthy postponement on completing the programming and data populating of both the Woodworking Data and the Numeric Data sections in preference to finishing the content along lines closer to the original mandate of recording the woods of the world. These two areas are not totally abandoned but will unlikely be completed for at least one or two years till the other data is added.

State of Progress to Date - The audience for the data and information that these delayed sections appeal to are considerably more specific than general knowledge of wood. Woodworkers naturally will wish to know what each wood is like to work with. Numeric test data is especially of interest to engineers and architects. Knowing these knowledge functions are quite narrow and specific in contrast to general wood descriptions and data, in planning it was decided that these areas should be made visible only on specific choice by the readers. That part of the code is done and works fine. If neither information on woodworking or numeric properties are wanted, the report forms for them do not show. In contrast, the reader can make either or both function forms to show.

The forms that do show at this point are stubs. The database tables have not been created and the forms are therefore not yet linked to any data. They will remain that way (as explained above) for an extended period. The exception to this would be if considerable new resources in money and labor were found to speed progress or, similarly, one or more volunteers came forward to help implement them earlier. My apologies for those that may have specific interest in these knowledge areas.