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Streamlining the Taxonomic Process: Data Gathering and Interpretation Online

Enhance your taxonomic knowledge with online resources for data gathering, interpretation, and presentation. Explore tools to gather specimens, identify taxa, and create descriptive keys. Uncover a wealth of taxonomic data through plant names, nomenclature, literature, and herbarium specimens.

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Streamlining the Taxonomic Process: Data Gathering and Interpretation Online

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  1. The taxonomic process Data gathering and Interpretation On-line data resources Data presentation – online Floras

  2. Collect Initial Subject Area Knowledge Gather Specimens Crude Similarity Sort Grouping Detailed Sort Collect Further Related Knowledge Create Initial Proforma Check on Missing Data & DataIntegrity Interpret Written Descriptions (Check Specimens) Identify and RecordCharacters Review and Modify Groups Decide Diagnostic Characteristics Name Taxa / Handle Synonymy Write Taxa Descriptions Create Keys The Taxonomic Process

  3. Data Gathering Taxon names & nomenclature Past publications Herbarium specimens Living material Images

  4. http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/URC/floras

  5. Taxon Names & Nomenclature What names exist Places of publication Basionyms Synonyms Interpretive materials

  6. What Names Exist? - Index Kewensis Published volumes 1885-1996 cover names above species since 1753

  7. What Names Exist? - Index Kewensis Limitations of published volumes Only infraspecific names published since 1971 are included Type information only included since 1997 (basionyms for earlier names usually given) Expensive Time consuming searching all the published volumes and supplements

  8. What Names Exist? - Index Kewensis – CD ROM Published in 1997 from a database created by image scanning the original printed volumes. Improved search capabilities. Limitations of CD-ROM version… Expensive (£1,000) Optical Character Recognition errors are common – much less reliable than the printed version

  9. What Names Exist? - IPNI Index Kewensis – RBG Kew Grey Card Index – Harvard UniversityAll ranks of plant names of New World taxa since 1886 Australian Plant Names Index - National HerbariumAll ranks of vascular plant names of Australian taxa

  10. What Names Exist? - IPNI

  11. What Names Exist? - IPNI

  12. What Names Exist? - IPNI

  13. What Names Exist? - IPNI Freely available via the Internet - however, download speeds may be an issue for those with slow modem connections Updated periodically with corrections to improve accuracy and conforming with data standards Reliability and accuracy much improved, providing a good basis for research data

  14. Taxon Names & Nomenclature What names exist Places of publication Basionyms Synonyms Interpretive materials

  15. Literature Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature Floras of the World Web of Science & Online library catalogues Online books and journals Standard abbreviations Online glossaries Botanical Latin translation

  16. Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature Taxonomic literature published since 1970 Cross-referenced by taxa and authors Published quarterly

  17. Kew Index to Taxonomic Literature

  18. Kew Index to Taxonomic Literature

  19. Literature Floras of the World Web of Science & Online library catalogues Online books and journals Online glossaries Botanical Latin translation

  20. BPH and TL2

  21. Herbarium Specimens Index Herbariorum – location for loans Online herbarium catalogues – specimen data Online images of specimens Index of botanical collectors Geo-referencing

  22. Calle Directory of Cities and Towns

  23. Living Material Plant collection catalogues Online catalogues of living collections Multi-site queries

  24. Online Living Collections

  25. Images Photographs of plants in the wild Illustrations of plants Habitat images

  26. Images Index Londonensis Kew Record Internet Search Engines

  27. Other information sources General search engines Internet Directory for Botany Botanical portals (Species2000, All-Species, NBN, etc.) Specialist websites

  28. Online Floras

  29. Online publishing - Advantages Freely available Everything published (no size constraint and nothing ‘lost’) Easily updated (can post early versions) Final accounts published when ready Good working tool for collaborative production of accounts

  30. Opportunities Generated directly from database Multi-user interfaces User customisable outputs Interactive identification (keys) Provide authoritative data to other projects (GIS applications, third-party databases, etc.)

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