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Peter Sullins
The Sullins Family
In The Village of Silver Firs
Everett, WA
TheSullinsFamily at earthlink.net



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From: Leslie_Slater at fws.gov [mailto:Leslie_Slater at fws.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 2:42 PM
To: jcooper at adu.uct.ac.za
Subject: Fw: avian database



SORA, the searchable database that includes the "archives" of Condor,
Auk, Wilson Bulletin, Journal of Field Ornithology, Studies in Avian
Biology, and Pacific Coast Avifauna, has "hatched". On behalf of all
of us I'd like to thank and congratulate Blair Wolf for his
leadership in this endeavor. Read--and distribute--the announcement
below. It has been sent to several ornithological listserves
(ORNITH-L, NEOORN-L, and HUMNET-L) and will appear in the
Ornithological Newsletter in December.

Best regards,

Bonnie

Announcing SORA- The Searchable Ornithological Research Archive

The SORA project (http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora) is an open access electronic
journal archive and is the product of a collaboration between the American
Ornithologists Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, the Association of
Field Ornithologists, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the University
of New Mexico libraries and IT department. This archive provides access to
an extensive Ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed
material documenting the history of Ornithology in North America over the
last 120 years. The content of this site includes the following titles: The
Auk (1884-1999), The Condor (1899-2000), The Journal of Field Ornithology
(1930-1999), The Wilson Bulletin (1889-1999), Pacific Coast Avifauna
(1900-1974) and Studies in Avian Biology (1978-1999). The North American
Bird Bander will also be available in the near future.

The content is available in searchable and browseable formats and documents
can be downloaded as pdf or djvu files. Djvu files rely on an "acrobat" type
browser plug-in (www.lizardtech.com) for viewing and are approximately 1/4
the size of pdf files for faster downloads. Web browsers must have the
ability to read java script (make sure it is turned on). The site is still
under development and additional features and journals (JFO browse feature
and NABB for example) will be added as the materials become available and
the programming is completed. This site is still undergoing some
modification and problems (broken/bad links, etc.) can be reported to the
SORA Coordinator, Blair Wolf, through the site link. He will not be
providing browser support, but is interested in functional issues/ideas
relating to the site. We will be providing more detailed information on site
operability on the webpage in the coming weeks.

The SORA project is an outgrowth of the Cooper Ornithological Society's
efforts to produce an electronic archive of The Condor. The interest and
participation of the other North American Ornithological societies has
allowed for the creation of SORA. The project was financed solely by the
individual societies, and the University of New Mexico Centennial Science
Library and IT department invested the time and resources to develop the
databases and website. Princeton Imaging scanned the journals, produced the
supporting SGML and has provided extensive support towards getting the
content online. Dana Gardner kindly painted the attractive banner and Sora
for the web page. Enjoy!!!

Best regards, Blair Wolf, SORA Coordinator.





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Bonnie S. Bowen
President, Cooper Ornithological Society
124 Science II
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
voice: 515-294-6391
fax: 515-294-7874
email: bsbowen at iastate.edu
COS website: http://www.cooper.org