21st century floras new technologies to speed the process Problems in beginning a new Flora



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21st CENTURY FLORAS New technologies to speed the process


Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Access to available names

  • Access to publications

  • Access to adequate collections

  • Access to ancillary information

  • Speed of the taxonomic process

  • Re-inventing the wheel

  • Size of the task

          • With thanks to George Shepherd


where are we now?

  • where are we now?

  • where are we going?



Using emerging technologies

  • What emerging technologies?

  • How are they being used?

  • How can these be used to solve the problems of beginning a new Flora



Changing Technology

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

  • Digital Libraries

  • Presentation Tools



Internet

  • New high-speed parallel networks

    • From gopher to grid
  • Distributed systems

    • From Z39.50 to XML, SOAP
  • Interactive Mapping

    • From Imap to ArcIMS, Mapserver


Changing Technology

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

    • Scanners
    • Digital Photography
    • Digital Video
  • Digital Libraries

  • Presentation Tools



Computer Storage



Changing Technology

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

    • Scanners
    • Digital Photography
    • Digital Video
  • Digital Libraries

  • Presentation Tools



Chip Development



Changing Technology

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

    • Scanners
    • Digital Photography
    • Digital Video
  • Digital Libraries

  • Presentation Tools



GPS



Australian Bird Atlas



Changing Technologies

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

    • Scanners
    • Digital Photography
    • Digital Video
  • Digital Libraries

  • Presentation Tools



Changing Technologies

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

    • Scanners
    • Digital Photography
    • Digital Video
  • Digital Libraries

  • Presentation Tools



Type collections



Type Collections



Type Collections

  • University of Florida



Type Collections







Changing Technologies

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

    • Scanners
    • Digital Photography
    • Digital Video
  • Digital Libraries

  • Presentation Tools



Digital Imagery



Changing Technology

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

    • Scanners
    • Digital Photography
    • Digital Video
  • Digital Libraries

  • Presentation Tools



Video Imaging



Changing Technology

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

    • Scanners
    • Digital Photography
    • Digital Video
  • Digital Libraries

  • Presentation Tools



Digital Libraries



Changing Technologies

  • Internet

  • Computing

    • Storage
    • Processing speeds
  • GPS

  • Analysis Tools

  • Imagery

    • Scanners
    • Digital Photography
    • Digital Video
  • Presentation Tools



Flora of Australia



Flora of Australia



Using emereging technologies

  • Access to available names



Using emereging technologies

  • Access to available names

    • Catalogue of names (authority files)
    • Distributed access


Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Access to publications



Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Access to publications



Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Access to adequate collections



Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Access to adequate collections

    • Virtual Herbaria
    • DiGIR


Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Access to ancillary information



Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Access to ancillary information

    • Flora Braziliensis revisited
    • Digital libraries


Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Speed of the taxonomic process



Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Speed of the taxonomic process

    • Databases
    • Protologues
    • Types
    • Electronic publications
      • Names, check lists, floras, etc.
    • Working smarter
    • Sharing data, pooling descriptions


Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Re-inventing the wheel

    • Other floras and electronic floras
      • Flora of Australia/XML
    • Distributed systems
    • Species Plantarum?
    • Utilising the resources


Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Size of the task



Problems in beginning a new Flora

  • Size of the task

    • What type of Flora?
    • Who wants a Flora anyway?
    • Electronic Flora
    • Check lists, guide books
    • What are the priorities
    • Australian experience
    • Orchids – are they really plants?
    • 250 years of taxonomic endeavour


If Linnaeus was starting today

  • If Linnaeus was starting today

  • would he do things the same way?



The future –

  • Linking distributed information

    • A distributed flora?
  • Searching interactively

  • ‘on demand’ Floras

  • Up-to-date information

  • Quicker, more efficient taxonomy



Working Smarter

  • Taxonomic process

    • Searching for names
    • Searching for original descriptions
    • Searching for recent revisions
    • Searching for specimens/types
    • Creating a character set
    • Writing descriptions
    • Publishing


How can we improve efficiency

  • Writing Floras

    • Gathering information from revisions
    • Re-keying information
    • Re-checking specimens
    • Geo-referencing
    • Checking other treatises, floras, etc.
    • Writing up
    • Mapping
    • Illustrating
    • Publishing
    • Data validation tools


LUCID



A fantasy

  • Person in field with a GPS and satellite link

  • Upload location

  • Download key and descriptions

  • Type in vegetation type – use interactive keys

  • Upload photograph or video

  • Get identification – or notification of possible new species

  • New description, photograph, etc. on spot added to database – perhaps with code rather than formal name.

  • Information is immediately to other researchers and taxonomists.



Questions?





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