From Floras to Interactive Keys

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From Floras to Interactive Keys Patricia Malcolm

How to capture information in existing manuscripts.

Dichotomous keys online – FZ example

Phyllanthus Key – Lucid Phoenix

Croton of Madagascar – INTKEY

Capturing existing information Printed volumes Word doc. Mark-up XML XSLT Database OCR

Original document The formatting in the document is used to first mark-up paragraph level information & then character level information using MSWord macros & MSWord Styles.

Marking-up

Marking-up Accepted Synonym Description Distribution Ecology Notes Paragraphs Genus Habitat Altitude Country FZ country Division Author Species Parenthetical Author Literature reference Local references

XML layout

Lucid Phoenix FZ online DELTA - INTKEY

DB holding dichotomous keys http://www.kew.org/efloras/search.do

Keys online rt

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DELTA - INTKEY The Genus Croton in Madagascar and the Comoro Is. A. Radcliffe-Smith Text file

DELTA - INTKEY Text file

DELTA - INTKEY Database Text files DELTA INTKEY C:deltacrotoncroton

DELTA - INTKEY Database Text files DELTA INTKEY

Lessons learnt

Have the information in a database or XML.

With few characters you can get far.

Images will help to differentiate the last few species.

Always write down your proceedures.

Thanks to: Photograph: © Gerald D. Carr Kehan Harman Stuart Cable Don Kirkup Rogier de Kok Petra Hoffmann Alan Radcliffe-Smith Paul Berry (U. of Michigan – Herbarium)

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