Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics, and Applications

by Gordon B. Curry (Editor), Chris J. Humphries (Editor)

Overview

With changes in technology and a renewed effort to catalog the world's biodiversity, huge amounts of data are being generated on biodiversity issues. As response to the call for better information systems to manage the biodiversity crisis, a wide range of solutions are being developed for inventorying, managing, and disseminating taxonomic data. This book brings together a diverse array of authors, expertise, and assessors that discuss technical developments to improve the construction, population, and dissemination of biodiversity information. It is designed to inform students and researchers of biodiversity about the changes and challenges that need to be understood by everyone in this information age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000218862
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	23 MB
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About the Author

Gordon B. Curry and Chris J. Humphries

Table of Contents

Introduction and Background. The GBIF Position. Collections, Access and Meta-Data. Connecting Databases - the Biodiversity World' Project. Tropicos and Flora North America. Collection Database Architectures and Internet Services for Collections Databases. Biodiversity Information on the GRID. Biodiversity of Plant Pathogenic Fungi - LIAS Project. ENBI. Biodiversity Databases of Fossil Organisms Based on XML. Java/CORBA Common Access System for Species 2000. Set in Stone: On-line Publishing of Original Data. ERIN and Industrializing Information.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

I recommend Biodiversity Databases' to anyone who is looking for a good entry point into the field of biodiversity informatics, with the qualification that the reality of data integration might be more "lively" than some chapters let on.
—The Systematist, 2010

“… addresses many of the new features of the types of databases now in service and make cases for even more improvements. They focus on best practices and applications as they describe concepts and installations…”
—SciTech Book News

"This book is indispensable for those who would build or use an electronic repository of taxonomic information previously contained only in such analog formats as herbaria or specimen labels, mapping projects, tissue culture collections, etc. This work will also be of value to natural history researchers wishing to contribute to the global effort to document species diversity by gathering the primary data that goes into or is used by the various biodiversity databases . . . Summing Up: Recommended."
– K. A. Newman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in Choice: Current Review for Academic Libraries, November 2007, Vol. 45, No. 3

Editorial Reviews

I recommend Biodiversity Databases' to anyone who is looking for a good entry point into the field of biodiversity informatics, with the qualification that the reality of data integration might be more "lively" than some chapters let on.
—The Systematist, 2010

“… addresses many of the new features of the types of databases now in service and make cases for even more improvements. They focus on best practices and applications as they describe concepts and installations…”
—SciTech Book News

"This book is indispensable for those who would build or use an electronic repository of taxonomic information previously contained only in such analog formats as herbaria or specimen labels, mapping projects, tissue culture collections, etc. This work will also be of value to natural history researchers wishing to contribute to the global effort to document species diversity by gathering the primary data that goes into or is used by the various biodiversity databases . . . Summing Up: Recommended."
– K. A. Newman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in Choice: Current Review for Academic Libraries, November 2007, Vol. 45, No. 3

From the Publisher