The Flora of Texas Consortium Project Chronology

October 20-22, 1994 - Flora of Texas Technical Workshop at Fort Worth (BRIT)

April 21, 1995 - Initial Steering Committee meeting at College Station (TAMU)

July 19, 1995 - Steering Committee meeting at Austin (UT)

September 16, 1995 - Steering Committee meeting at San Marcos (SWTSU)

October 27-28, 1995 - Steering Committee meeting at Forth Worth (BRIT)

November 10, 1995 - Initial collaborative project (Helianthus Range Maps) established as a functional prototype

November 14, 1995 - Working data model placed on line for membership review and discussion

November 21, 1995 - Collaborative project (Bouteloua Range Maps) established as a functional prototype

December 15, 1995 - Invitation/information letters to potential participants

January 15, 1996 - Consortium WWW site opened

January 19, 1996 - Data model revision

March 29, 1996 - First full FTC meeting at the Texas A&M Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.

April 5, 1996 - Data model revision

June 27, 1996 - Prototype FTC decision-making system opened for review and development

July 16, 1996 - Texas Endemics Data System opened for review and development

July 26, 1996 - Summer Meeting at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens

September 6, 1996 - Comunications Page on line

November 22, 1996 - Fall Meeting at the University of Texas at Austin

March 7, 1997 - Spring Meeting at Sam Houston State University, in conjuction with the Texas Academy of Sciences meeting

May 20, 1997 - Summer Meeting at Texas A&M University, in conjunction with the SWARM-AAAS meetings

July 10, 1997 - Herbarium Specimen Browser opened for public access with over 50,000 specimens from four FTC institutions

September 20, 1997 - 'Tracy' specimen data input system positioned for public access

September 26, 1997--Fall Meeting at Texas State University in San Marcos

March 6, 1998 - Spring Meeting at the University of Texas in Tyler, in conjunction with the 101st meetings of the Texas Academy of Science

June 12, 1998 - Summer Meeting at the University of Texas, Austin

July 1, 1998 - Data model revised as a data exchange specification

July 10, 1998 - Herbarium Specimen Browser data content exceeds 100,000 specimen records from seven FTC herbaria

August 3, 1998 - Version 2.2 of the 'Tracy' specimen data input system released

March 31, 1999 - Member website initiated - Texas A&M University-Kingsville

June 3, 1999 - Herbarium Specimen Browser data content exceeds 130,000 specimen records from eight FTC herbaria

July 23, 1999 - Summer Meeting at the University of Texas, Austin

August 2, 1999 - Proposal for research, Digital Biodiversity - The Flora of Texas Project, submitted to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Advanced Research Program

October 29, 1999 - Proposal submitted 2 August 99 approved for funding

November 13, 1999 -  Fall Meeting at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin

November 17, 2000 - Meeting at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin

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