Designs for a Global Plant Species Information System - Couverture rigide

 
9780198577607: Designs for a Global Plant Species Information System
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0198577605 ISBN 13 : 9780198577607
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

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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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198577605
ISBN 13 
9780198577607
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
Éditeur
Bisby F. A., Russell G. F., Pankhurst R. J.
Coordonnées du fabricant
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