| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 193 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps (some color) |
| Series |
The Systematics Association special volume series ; 73 |
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Systematics Association special volume ; no. 73.
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| Contents |
The global biodiversity information facility (GBIF) / Meredith A. Lane and James. L. Edwards -- The European network for biodiversity information / Wouter Los and Cees H.J. Hof -- Networking taxonomic concepts--uniting without 'unitary-ism' / Walter G. Berendsohn and Mark Geoffrey -- Networking biological collections databases : building a European infrastructure / Malcolm J. Scoble and Walter G. Berendsohn -- A comparison between morphometric and artifical neural network approaches to the automated species recognition problem in systematics / Norman MacLeod, M. O'Neill, and Steven A. Walsh -- Automated extraction of biodiversity data from taxonomic descriptions / Gordon B. Curry and Richard J. Connor -- The grid and biodiversity informatics / Andrew C. Jones -- LIAS--an interactive database system from structured descriptive data of ascomycetes / Dagmar Triebel [and others] -- Linking biodiversity databases : preparing species diversity information sources by assembling, merging and linking databases / Richard J. White -- Priority areas for rattan conservation on Borneo / Jacob Andersen Sterling [and others] |
| Summary |
Explores the changes and challenges of the information age. This book discusses projects developed to provide access to biodiversity information. It explores issues involved in connecting databases with different user interfaces, the technical demands of linking databases that are not entirely uniform in structure and the problems of user access |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Biodiversity -- Databases
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Biodiversity.
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Biodiversity
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Databases
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Taxonomy.
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Biodiversity
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Biodiversität
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Datenbank
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Biologisk mångfald.
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| Genre/Form |
Databases
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Curry, Gordon B.
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Humphries, C. J. (Christopher John), 1947-
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| ISBN |
9780203022542 |
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0203022548 |
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1281081604 |
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9781281081605 |
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9781439832547 |
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1439832544 |
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9781466540569 |
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1466540567 |
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9781000218862 |
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1000218864 |
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9780429152337 |
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0429152337 |
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