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Jitendra Gaikwad from Macquarie University

jgaikwad(at)cbms.mq.edu.au

http://biolinfo.org/wikipedia/index.php/Jitendra_Gaikwad

 		 Monday, 15-12-08 04:18
I was trying to get hold of some standards for developing my database for traditional medicinal plants. But the one mentioned on the TDWG website (Economic Botany Data Collection Standard) needs to be purchased. I was wondering why ?
TDWG follows the philosophy of open sharing of information and data. And it is also expected from people in biodiversity informatics to follow some standard and protocol. If this is the case, why people should follow standards mentioned on TDWG's website? I think, such standards which have grown old needs to be updated and should be made freely downloadable or available to researchers.

Steve Davis from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

s.davis(at)kew.org

http://www.kew.org/ceb/sepasal/

 		 Wednesday, 29-08-07 17:35
The Economic Botany Data Collection Standard has been adopted (in full) by SEPASAL - the Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands - an online database on the uses and properties of more than 6700 wild and semi-domesticated tropical and subtropical plants available by following the link from http://www.kew.org/ceb/sepasal/
The database is designed in such a way as to enable search terms (from various TDWG and in-house developed schemes, e.g. on morphology, habitat, etc.) to be linked, enabling users to make simple to more complex enquiries to find the plants of their choice.

Teams at SEPASAL nodes at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, and the National Botanical Research Institute of Namibia, Windhoek, have made extensive use of the standard since 2002 and 2004 respectively in updating plant use information held on SEPASAL.

A link to the terms in the standard is also available from the Kew website at http://www.kew.org/tdwguses/index.htm

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