Designs for a Global Plant Species Information System
Series: Systematics Association Special Volumes; 48;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 March 1994
- ISBN 9780198577607
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 720 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 halftone, line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
Pressure for the conservation of rapidly disappearing plants and ecological communities has provided botanists, systematicists, 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. This book describes the various needs of the users, how these needs can be met using existing technology, and how the systems can be implemented most productively.
MoreLong description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Contributors and Chairmen
Global Plant Species Information Systems (GPSIS): `blue skies design' or tomorrow's workplan?
Part I: Demand for a global plant species information system
The need for a worldwide botanical reference system
US Interagency botanical data application, needs, and the PLANTS database
NAPRALERT: problems and achievements in the field of natural products
Prolegomena on a species information system for the flora of the Rocky Mountains
The need for information on genetic resources
Plant breeding and resource information
Standard and alternative taxonomic data in the multi-institutional Natural Heritage Data Centre network
Part II: Botanical decision-making and data-collection strategies
A view of the future for floristic research
Instability in biological nomenclature: problems and solutions
Lists of names in current use and their possible role in a global platn species information system
The proposed Species Plantarum Project (SPP)
The ILDIS project on the world's legume species diversity
Botanical strategies for compiling a global plant checklist
The role of individual botanists and small organizations in the developmetn and maintenance of a global plant information system (GPIS)
Botanical decision-making and data-collection strategies - the role of small institutions
The role of large institutions in a global plant species information system
Part III: System design
Designing a world service: a BIOSIS viewpoint
Centralized, distributed, and replicated databases: the pros and cons
A global plant taxonomy database: design considerations
Linking related databases: a microbiological approach
Adopting a transaction processing model for a global plant species information system
Design aspects of an enterprise computing environment for systematics
Networks and communications: the internet
Part IV: Data structures and software
Alternative models for taxonomic data
A strategy for the evolution of database designs
Software development strategies for global plant information systems
Part V: Practical steps to establish a system
Management models for a global plant species information system
The GPSIS action group: a call to action
IOPI: the genesis of GPSIS
Index
