Vocabularies - Managing Them

From Floras to Interactive Keys

Presentation given by Patricia Malcolm-Tompkins at the KikForum Abstract: Floras offer a means for the identification and correct naming of plants for a particular region. Kew’s tradition for writing Floras has lead to the production of 6 main African Floras, which together with other monographic work are gradually being digitised and will form part of the online e-floras resource. Having these works in digital form not only enables access to the Floras for users around the world through the internet, but also opens opportunities to improve and reuse this information. In this talk I will cover 3 ways in which the information in Floras and monographs can be used to build interactive identification systems. I will first describe the methodology used for the digitisation of Kew’s legacy works and how this information is now part of an online database for identification and nomenclatural queries (Flora Zambesiaca online). I will then demonstrate how Lucid Phoenix can be used to publish dichotomous keys online, using Phyllanthus key from Flora Zambesiaca as an example. And finally, I will demonstrate how to transfer character base information from a monograph (“Then genus Croton in Madagascar and the Comoro Is.” by A. Radcliffe-Smith - unpublished) into a DELTA/INTKEY system. With this key the user can arrive to a group of less than 10 taxa by using only 5 characters, out of a total of ~150 species of Croton.

The CATE Project

Presentation by Simon Mayo at the KikForum Abstract: As part of the CATE project we are developing keys in Lucid 3 to the genera of Araceae, and to the genus Anthurium (ca. 800spp.), Arum and Philodendron. The key to Arum is already online. These keys will be incorporated into a web-based taxonomic revision of the Araceae family as the plant model group for the project. Anthurium presents a particular challenge as it is a very large and difficult genus, within which it is currently nearly impossible for non-specialists to determine plants to species. We hope the key will go some way to solving this problem.

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An Interactive Key to the Genus Galanthus L.

Presentation given by Ewan Gage at the KikForum. Abstract: The genus Galanthus represents 19 species that have attracted the attention of gardeners for over 400 years and remain attractive ornamentals to this day. Propagation is mainly carried out by bulbs collected from the wild and this has lead to recent concerns regarding their conservation status and as such, the genus is now listed under CITES. This has lead to a demand for tools to aid in the identification of the members of this genus and so an attempt was made to develop an interactive key to the genus. A demonstration is given, alongside an outline of the problems associated with the identification of bulbous monocots and their potential solutions.

Knowledge Organization System (KOS) for biodiversity information resources, G...

Slides from a presentation on the Knowledge Organization System (KOS) work program for GBIF. KOS developments for biodiversity information resources and input to the emerging Vocabulary Management Task Group (VoMaG). Links GBIF KOS prototype tools, http://kos.gbif.org/ Tool: Semantic Wiki prototype, http://terms.gbif.org/wiki/ Tool: ISOcat prototype demo, http://kos.gbif.org/isocat/ GBIF concept vocabulary term browser, http://kos.gbif.org/termbrowser/ GBIF Resources Repository, http://rs.gbif.org/terms/ GBIF Vocabulary Server, http://vocabularies.gbif.org/ GBIF Resources Browser, http://tools.gbif.org/resource-browser/

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The Darwin Core terms can be seen as an extension to the standard Dublin Core metadata terms. The new Darwin Core extension for genebanks declares the additional terms required for describing genebank datasets, and is based on established standards from the plant genetic resources community. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) provides an information infrastructure for biodiversity data including a suite of software tools for data publishing, distributed data access, and the capture of biodiversity data. The Darwin Core extension for genebanks is a key component that provides access for the genebanks and the plant genetic resources community to the GBIF informatics infrastructure including the new toolkits for data exchange.

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