<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10053"><span>Hi,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10081"><br><span></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10082"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10115">Does your site ever had, has or could but not have fern data in your Data Catalog?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10117" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10115"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10182" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10115">This week, I am participating in a workshop whose main objectives are to develop field and metadata standards and finding depositories for global fern data. They also want to learn what is out there about ferns even if it's not properly archived.<br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_15985" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10115"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_16006" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10115">Please let me know if your site has any such data and if it has developed any type of standards related to the documentation and/or collection of fern data.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_16100" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10115"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_16099" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10115">Thanks.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_16097" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10115"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_16136" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10115">EDA<br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10083"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10052"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433165195393_10051">Eda C. Melendez Colom
<br>Information Manager
<br>LTER Program
<br>University of Puerto Rico
<br>Tel. (787) 764-0000 (1-4943)
<br>Fax (787) 772 -1481</div></div></div></body></html>