Abstract:

As Europe saw an increase in newly known plants, the seed list format was employed to make specimens legible across an informal network for botanical exchange. This article explores the medium specifications of the format and a rich repository of these lists, compiled by the English aristocrat Mary Somerset (bap. 1630–1715), who dedicated much of her time to maintaining the flows of information that seed lists mediated. This will show the work required to make exchanges meaningful and useful, the credibility and authority this could grant to a woman like Somerset, and, significantly, the importance of maintenance in transforming mobile units of information scattered across the world into something we call knowledge.

摘要：

随着欧洲新已知植物的增加，种子列表格式被用来使标本在非正式的植物交换网络中清晰可见。本文探讨了由英国贵族玛丽·萨默塞特（Mary Somerset，生于 1630-1715 年）编撰的格式的媒介规范和丰富的列表存储库，她将大部分时间投入到维护种子列表所介导的信息流上。这将展示让交流变得有意义和有用所需的工作，这可以赋予像萨默塞特这样的女性的可信度和权威，更重要的是，展示维护在将分散在世界各地的移动信息单元转变为我们所谓的知识的过程中的重要性。