Front matter: introduction, help, acknowledgments and references

Sections

• Introduction and scope

  18 recovered introduction pages, in a labeled provisional browsing sequence.

• Acknowledgments and credits

  The recovered author biography and 15 recovered acknowledgment text occurrences, kept separate from this preservation project's own modern credits (below).

• Instructions and help

  4 recovered instruction/errata pages describing the original CD-ROM application, plus 3 preserved-but-undecoded application asset(s). Modern usage guidance for this website is shown separately, in its own labeled section.

• References

  186 recovered bibliography records, preserved as decoded even where fragmentary.

Other recovered non-species domains

Every domain identified by the accepted content audit's OTHER_NON_SPECIES_DOMAINS.csv is listed here with an explicit disposition, whether or not it has a dedicated page in this section.

• Disc/publication sequencing

  Recovered historical content domain (integration disposition below)

  5 record(s). Disc 1/2/3 and 2006/additions labels.

  Added for this website: integration disposition
  Integrated: disc/publication-sequence labels (Disc 1/2/3, the 2006 additions) are recovered historical text already present within Introduction page 2 ("Organization"); see front-matter/introduction/.

• Global/Introduction media

  Recovered historical content domain (integration disposition below) explicit Introduction tokens resolved where exact stems exist

  59 record(s). Do not force global media into species ownership.

  Added for this website: integration disposition
  Integrated: the 59 recovered global/introduction media relationships are displayed as media items on their citing Introduction pages; see front-matter/introduction/.

• Windows Help topics

  Recovered historical content domain (integration disposition below) binary present, topic graph not decoded

  1 record(s). Archival documentation plus obsolete mechanics.

  Added for this website: integration disposition
  Partially integrated: WBIRD.HLP is present as a preserved historical application asset but its internal Windows help topic graph was not decoded by the accepted audit. Shown as a missing/partial-recovery record on the Help & instructions page; see front-matter/help/.

• Place descriptive pages

  Recovered historical content domain (integration disposition below) text stream decoded; record-field relationship partly inferred

  201 record(s). Includes habitats, directions, citations and media.

  Added for this website: integration disposition
  Partially integrated outside Workstream 2: recovered place/locality text is presented under the Localities section, implemented as a minimum vertical slice under Workstream 1/3 (see PROJECT_STATE_AND_EXECUTION_PLAN.md). Full Workstream 3 scope (complete place-description pages beyond the locality index/detail pages already shown) is not implemented by this workstream.

Evidentiary status legend

Every recovered content item and every relationship between items carries one of these eight evidentiary categories. They are never collapsed into a single generic status.

• From the original CD
• Organized by this website
• Added after review
• Possible — unresolved
• Sources disagree
• Not yet understood
• Missing or incomplete
• Added for this website