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XIV OPTIMA Meeting, Palermo (Italy), 9-15 September 2013 Emonocot: biodiversity informatics for monocot plants WILKIN P. 1 , BAKER E. 2 , BAKER W. J. 1 , BARKER A. 1 , CLARK B. 3 , GODFRAY H. 3 , CHARLES G. 3 , HARGREAVES S. 1 , KELLY J. 1 , KILGALLEN N. 1 , KITCHING I. J. 3 , LIVERMORE L. 3 , SANTARSIERO A. 3 , PHILLIPS S. 1 , SMITH V. S. 3 , WEBER O. 1 1 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, U.K. E-mail: p.wilkin@kew.org 2 Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, U.K. 3 Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. eMonocot is a project delivering a global online biodiversity information resource for monocotyledons. When complete, it will enable identification of Monocot plants, promote understanding of their diversity and evolutionary relationships, and allow the user to explore a wealth of information including descriptions, images, conservation, geographical and ecological data. eMonocot is in concept a distributed information system. The content underpinning the project is being compiled by monocot plant systematists from many different institutions worldwide . Their data are being contributed through online taxonomic information resources, specifically new communityled scratchpad websites created as part of the project (currently 28; http://about.e-monocot.org/listemonocot-scratchpads). These scratchpads are providing support and tools to enable monocot taxonomists and their communities to manage and present their taxonomic data online and in doing so contribute to eMonocot. Global participation is essential to developing and sustaining both this data and the expert taxonomic communities that generate and enhance it. There is also a dedicated team of project staff compiling content. The eMonocot portal (emonocot.org) is linking eMonocot scratchpad content to existing eTaxonomic resources including CATE-Araceae (http://araceae.e-monocot.org/), Palmweb (www.palmweb.org), Grassbase (www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html) and the Monocot checklist (www.kew.org/wcsp/monocots) via Darwin Core archives (DwC-A). The portal is geared primarily to users of systematic data such as those studying the ecology, evolution or conservation of monocot plants. The presentation will conclude by examining the further development of eMonocot, including its potential as a model for World Flora Online 2020 and for the portal to enable novel biodiversity science. 55
XIV OPTIMA Meeting, Palermo (Italy), 9-15 September 2013 eFAN : a free electronic database on flora of North Africa MATHIEU D., BENHOUHOU S., CHAUVET S., CHATELAIN C., DE BELAIR G., DOBIGNARD A., EL MOKNI R., EL OUALIDI J., GHRABI-GAMMAR Z., IBN TATTOU M., LEGER J.-F., MATHEZ J., MEDAIL F., MEDDOUR R., MEDJAHDI B., PAVON D., RHAZI L., VELA E. Tela Botanica Network, http://www.tela-botanica.org A group of botanists from both shores of the Mediterranean has recently created a collaborative project on North African flora with the aim of gathering botanists from different countries who are interested in this subject. All the people involved in this project will be volonteers and the data will be provided freely. A committee made out of active members has been organized around a Web platform dedicated to this project. Important initiatives carried out in recent years encouraged us to launch this project 1) The digitization of herbarium plant types from North Africa (GPI program supported by the Mellon Foundation) 2) the publication of the synonymic index for North African flora by the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de Genève 3) the edition in 2010 of the Catalogue synonymique commenté de la Flore de Tunisie by La banque de gènes de Tunisie 4) the publication of Moroccan flora by the Institut Scientifique de l’Université Mohamed V de Rabat. A preliminary meeting funded by the Agroplis fondation (Pl@ntNet project) was held in Montpellier in June 2012 to set the bases of the project. We met again in Tunis in June 2013 to formulate the following proposals: - bring together all bibliographic data in one internet access point, with links to the existing sites which distribute electronic documents about the North African flora; - identify all herbaria containing a significant number of North African plants; - describe the content of these herbaria in the shareable database Pl@ntNet-DataManager; - give access to the herbarium plant types through the synonymous index of North African flora; - gather field observations with Tela Botanica’s "On-Line Notebook" to download and to view real time data on georeferenced maps; - map biogeographical regions in order to display the distribution of North African plants; - disseminate available data on flora: synonymy, vernacular names, ecology, distribution, photographs, etc.; - create identification keys for morphological groups of plants by using the expert system XPER 2 ; - carry out actions in favor of training and promoting exchanges between countries : botany courses on the Internet, field workshops, university exchanges, etc... See: http://www.tela-botanica.org/page:projet_Afrique_du_Nord The eFAN project is financially supported by the Yves Rocher Foundation / Institut de France. 56
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