PAF web app history and Contacts

• Data parsing: Christian Svindseth originally created the PAF database from text documents supplied by the PAF editors.
• Original design: Christian Svindseth also developed the web app to serve the PAF data (Github), using Ruby and the sinatra web server. The site was originally hosted in Norway at http://nhm2.uio.no/paf/.
• New institutional home of PAF: Since October 2018, the PAF website project has been managed out of the herbarium of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (ALA). From 2018 to 2024, the original Ruby web app was hosted in the USA, at a new URL, http://panarcticflora.org.
• Rewrite: In April 2025, after the original app broke after a system upgrade, Cam Webb wrote a new app (in Gawk) to present the same PAF data.
• Content updates: Please contact Reidar Elven, David Murray, or Steffi Ickert-Bond, the ALA herbarium curator, with questions about ongoing work on the Panarctic Flora, and suggestions for updates. Alternatively, you may send changes to the maintainer, Cam Webb; patches to the source will also be much appreciated.
• Data availability: The full underlying PAF database is available. Please contact Cam Webb.