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From Titan arum to Amorphophallus titanum

From Titan arum to Amorphophallus titanum. Gabriele Popp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew EUUG Conference, Paris 2002. Introducing…. “Baby Titan” Common name Titan arum. Objective of this talk. How using the Kew thesaurus via iLink helps our users to reach their search goals OR

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From Titan arum to Amorphophallus titanum

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  1. From Titan arum to Amorphophallus titanum Gabriele Popp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew EUUG Conference, Paris 2002

  2. Introducing… “Baby Titan” Common name Titan arum

  3. Objective of this talk How using the Kew thesaurus via iLink helps our users to reach their search goals OR How to turn a keen amateur into a semi-professional botanist.

  4. Background • Unicorn implemented in 1991 • WebCat / iLink installed 2001 • Live on Intranet since May 2002 • Launch on Internet in Autumn 2002 as part of iKEW : a new institution-wide electronic information provision strategy for the 21st century.

  5. Kew Users • Internal: Kew staff, mostly scientists, plus visitors, all have high level of botanical expertise and knowledge of Latin nomenclature • External: Subject specialists worldwide, plus lay-people with knowledge of vernacular plant names

  6. Our Thesaurus • No adequate thesaurus available, so using various sources for terminology a) CAB thesaurus (Agriculture & Health terminology) b) Vascular plant families and genera by R.K. Brummitt • Currently terms entered during cataloguing • Future possible download of terminology

  7. Plant taxonomy Hierarchical classification by Kingdom = Plantae Family = Araceae Genus = Amorphophallus Species = Amorphophallus titanum

  8. Kew thesaurus • Lead Term :150 Amorphophallus titanum • See from :400 Titan arum • Broader term :500 Amorphophallus • Broader term :500 Araceae

  9. Thesaurus magic conversion, pt 1 Search for common name in iLink

  10. Thesaurus magic conversion, pt 2 Search result:

  11. Thesaurus magic conversion, pt 3 Cross-reference:

  12. New features of iLink Categories Try these too…

  13. Improvements in theory • Display of cross references brings the serendipity of browsing to online catalogue • Enhances search experience by suggesting terminology to broaden or narrow search • Allows for more in depth interrogation and investigation of our holdings • Increases accessibility and usability of whole collection

  14. Improvements in practice Internal users only: • Staff alerted to literature down to species level • Positive feedback regards online browsing of plant families up and down the hierarchy • Found misclassified items, which were linked by thesaurus terms, but had been assigned wrong shelf mark!

  15. In the meantime… what has become of Baby Titan? A blooming giant

  16. … but not for long!

  17. Bluff your way through botany… …next time you need to impress anybody with your knowledge of botanical nomenclature, why not use iKEW - coming soon! Watch this space...

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