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Pressure for the conservation of rapidly disappearing plants and ecological communities has provided botanists, systematists, and computer scientists from all over the world with a unified aim -- the production of a computer-based information checklist for all the world's plants. Progress has been rapid in recent years. From a diverse array of disconnected systems and databases, there now exists a single, internationally supervised organization with the priorities of the creation of a computer-based vascular plants action list and of a 'Common Directory' of existing databases which will run within the Internet network. This book describes the various needs of the users (whether botanists, conservationists, or those interested in agroforestry and natural products research), how these needs can be met using existing technology, and how the systems can be implemented most productively. The eventual aim is to provide international access to information on all the world's plants: names, classification, and geographical distribution, as well as information on genetic resources.

Table of Contents:
Contributors and Chairmen 1: F.A. Bisby: Global Plant Species Information Systems (GPSIS): `blue skies design' or tomorrow's workplan? Part I: Demand for a global plant species information system 2: G.L. Lucas: The need for a worldwide botanical reference system 3: J. Scott Peterson: US Interagency botanical data application, needs, and the PLANTS database 4: C. Gyllenhaal, M.L. Quinn, D.D. Soejarto, and N.R. Farnsworth: NAPRALERT: problems and achievements in the field of natural products 5: S.A. Morain: Prolegomena on a species information system for the flora of the Rocky Mountains 6: M. Chauvet: The need for information on genetic resources 7: J.I. Cubero: Plant breeding and resource information 8: L.E. Morse: Standard and alternative taxonomic data in the multi-institutional Natural Heritage Data Centre network Part II: Botanical decision-making and data-collection strategies 9: A. Gomez-Pompa and O.E. Plummer: A view of the future for floristic research 10: J. McNeill: Instability in biological nomenclature: problems and solutions 11: W. Greuter: Lists of names in current use and their possible role in a global platn species information system 12: R.K. Brummitt: The proposed Species Plantarum Project (SPP) 13: J.L. Zarucchi, P.J. Winfield, R.M. Polhill, S. Hollis, F.A. Bisby, and R. Allkin: The ILDIS project on the world's legume species diversity 14: F.A. Bisby: Botanical strategies for compiling a global plant checklist 15: C.H. Stirton: The role of individual botanists and small organizations in the developmetn and maintenance of a global plant information system (GPIS) 16: U. Eggli: Botanical decision-making and data-collection strategies - the role of small institutions 17: N.R. Morin: The role of large institutions in a global plant species information system Part III: System design 18: M.N. Dadd and M.C. Kelly: Designing a world service: a BIOSIS viewpoint 19: M.W. Freeston: Centralized, distributed, and replicated databases: the pros and cons 20: M. Everard: A global plant taxonomy database: design considerations 21: B. Kirsop: Linking related databases: a microbiological approach 22: D. Jinks: Adopting a transaction processing model for a global plant species information system 23: J.H. Beach: Design aspects of an enterprise computing environment for systematics 24: K.C. Roubicek: Networks and communications: the internet Part IV: Data structures and software 25: C. Zellweger and R. Allkin: Alternative models for taxonomic data 26: R.J. White and R. Allkin: A strategy for the evolution of database designs 28: R. Allkin and R.J. Winfield: Software development strategies for global plant information systems Part V: Practical steps to establish a system 29: G.F. Russell: Management models for a global plant species information system 30: C. Gyllenhaal, G.F. Russell, J.S. Preston, N.M. Merin, and F.A. Bisby on behalf of the GPSIS Action Group: The GPSIS action group: a call to action 31: J. Burnett: IOPI: the genesis of GPSIS Index

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`this volume provides a nice summary of the diversity of approaches to databasing information about plants that existed in the early 1990s ... Much of the information is still relevant today, and would be useful reading for anyone embarking on a large-scale taxonomic database project.' Barbara M. Thiers, Brittonia, Vol. 48


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198577607
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Weight: 720 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198577605
  • Publisher Date: 17 Mar 1994
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 48 Systematics Association Special Volumes
  • Width: 156 mm


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