2024-03-29T15:57:23Z
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2020-01-20T14:41:13Z
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Miller, Chuck
Ulate, William
2018-05-17
<p>The World Flora Online (WFO) is primarily a data management project initiated in 2012 in response to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation – "<i>To create an online flora of all known plants by 2020</i>". A WFO Consortium has been formed of now 42 international partners with a governing Council and three Working Groups. The World Flora Online Public Portal (www.worldfloraonline.org) was launched at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, China in July, 2017. The baseline Public Portal was primarily populated with a taxonomic backbone of information gathered from The Plant List augmented by newer taxonomic sources like Solanaceae Source. To support all known plant names in the WFO. including both vascular and non-vascular plants, new WFO identifiers (WFOIDs) were created, which were also cross-referenced to the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) identifiers for plant names included there. The next phase of the World Flora Online involves additional enhancement of the taxonomic backbone by engagement of new plant Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) and acceleration of ingestion of descriptive data from digital floras and monographs, and other sources like International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) threat assessments and the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) Global Tree Assessment. Descriptive data can be text descriptions, images, geographic distributions, identification keys, phylogenetic trees, as well as atomized trait data like threat status, lifeform or habitat. Initial digital descriptive datasets have been received by WFO from Flora of Brazil, Flora of South Africa, Flora of China, Flora of North Africa, Solanaceae Source and several others. The hard work is underway to match the names associated with the submitted descriptions to the names and WFOIDs in the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone and then merging the descriptive data elements into the WFO database. Numerous data tools have been adopted and created to accomplish the data cleaning, standardization and transformation required before descriptive data can be integrated. The WFO project has discovered many variations between just the few datasets received so far, which highlights the need for better standardization and controlled vocabularies for flora and monographic descriptive data. This presentation will review some of the issues identified by the project when merging descriptive data and some potential gaps in the TDWG standards specifically for flora descriptive data. Some opportunities for consideration by the TDWG Species Information Interest Group will be presented.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26731
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2, e26731, (2018-05-17)
Descriptive Data Challenges for the World Flora Online
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2021-09-24T13:48:27Z
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Ulate, William
Katabathuni, Sunitha
Elliott, Alan
2021-09-16
<p>The World Flora Online (WFO) is the collaborative, international initiative to achieve Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC): "<em>An online flora of all known plants.</em>" WFO provides an open-access, web-based compendium of the world's plant species, which builds upon existing knowledge and published floras, checklists and revisions but will also require the collection and generation of new information on poorly known groups and unexplored regions (Borsch et al. 2020).</p><p>The construction of the WFO Taxonomic Backbone is central to the entire WFO as it determines the accessibility of additional content data and at the same time, represents a taxonomic opinion on the circumscription of those taxa. The Plant List v.1.1 (TPL 2013) was the starting point for the backbone, as this was the most comprehensive resource covering all plants available. We have since curated the higher taxonomy of the backbone, based on the following published community-derived classifications: the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG IV 2016), the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (PPG I 2016), Bryophytes (Buck et al. 2008), and Hornworts & Liverworts (Söderström et al. 2016).</p><p>The WFO presents a community-supported consensus classification with the aim of being the authoritative global source of information on the world's plant diversity. The backbone is actively curated by our Taxonomic Expert Networks (TEN), consisting of specialists of taxonomic groups, ideally at the Family or Order level. There are currently 37 approved TENs, involving more than 280 specialists, working with the WFO. There are small TENs like the Begonia Resource Center and the Meconopsis Group (with five specialists), medium TENs like Ericaceae and Zingiberaceae Resource Centers or SolanaceaSource.org (around 15 experts), and larger TENs like Caryophyllales.org and the Legume Phylogeny Working Group, with more than 80 specialists involved. When we do not have taxonomic oversight, the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP 2019) has been used to update those families from the TPL 2013 classification. Full credit and acknowledgement given to the original sources is a key requirement of this collaborative project, allowing users to refer to the primary data. For example, an association with the original content is kept through the local identifiers used by the taxonomic content providers as a link to their own resources.</p><p>A key requirement for the WFO Taxonomic Backbone is that every name should have a globally unique identifier that is maintained, ideally forever. After considering several options, the WFO Technology Working Group recommended that the WFO Council establish a WFO Identifier (WFO-ID), a 10-digit number with a "wfo-" prefix, aimed at establishing a resolvable identifier for all existing plant names, which will not only be used in the context of WFO but can be universally used to reference plant names.</p><p>Management of the WFO Taxonomic Backbone has been a challenge as TPL v1.1 was derived from multiple taxonomic datasets, which led to duplication of records. For that reason, names can be excluded from the public portal by the WFO Taxonomic Working Group or the TENs, but not deleted. A WFO-ID is not deleted nor reused after it has been excluded from the WFO Taxonomic Backbone. Keeping these allows for better matching when assigning WFO-IDs to data derived from content providers. Nevertheless, this implies certain considerations for new names and duplications.</p><p>New names are added to the WFO Taxonomic Backbone via nomenclators like the International Plants Name Index (IPNI, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew et al. 2021) for Angiosperms, and Tropicos (Missouri Botanical Garden 2021) for Bryophytes, as well as harvesting endemic and infraspecific names from Flora providers when providing descriptive content. New names are passed to the TEN to make a judgement on their taxonomic status.</p><p>When TENs provide a new authoritative taxonomic list for their group, we first produce a Name Matching report to ensure no names are missed. Several issues come from managing and maintaining taxonomic lists, but the process of curating an ever-growing integrated resource leads to an increase in the challenges we face with homonyms, non-standard author abbreviations, orthographic variants and duplicate names when Name Matching.</p><p>The <em>eMonocot</em> database application, provided by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, (Santarsiero et al. 2013) and subsequently adapted by the Missouri Botanical Garden to provide the underlying functionality for WFO's current toolset, has also proven itself to be a challenging component to update.</p><p>In this presentation, we will share our hands-on experience, technical solutions and workflows creating and maintaining the WFO Taxonomic Backbone. </p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75343
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 5, e75343, (2021-09-16)
WFO
taxonomy
GSPC
Challenges, Solutions, and Workflows Developed for the Taxonomic Backbone of the World Flora Online.
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oai:zenodo.org:6955186
2022-08-03T13:48:52Z
user-wfo
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Bánki, Olaf
2022-08-01
<p>Plants are a relatively well curated and maintained taxonomic group. Despite all this taxonomic effort, it is not always clear for users of plant species information which authoritative taxonomic list to follow. Collaborations, such as between the World Flora Online consortium, International Plant Names Index (IPNI), Australian Plant Names Index (APNI), Catalogue of Life (COL), the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and others may help the plant community move forward towards an encompassing global plant species resource. Over the past 20 years, COL has strived to assemble a global plant species list from various data sources published in the COL Checklist (Bánki et al. 2022). COL aspires to move towards having more plant taxonomic sectors being managed by active taxonomic communities. Through its new infrastructure, ChecklistBank, Catalogue of Life is on its way to provide additional services to publish, discover, compare and download different plant taxonomic data sources. COL is also working with partners such as PlaZi, Pensoft and Biodiversity Heritage Library to link plant species information with available digital literature. Such services could help users of plant information to better understand the overlap and differences between the various plant species data sources offered.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.91112
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 6, e91112, (2022-08-01)
Plants
species list
checklist
ChecklistBank
IPNI
APNI
GBIF
World Flora Online
Plazi
Pensoft
BHL
Assembly of Plant Taxonomic Lists through Catalogue of Life
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oai:zenodo.org:6578898
2022-05-25T13:50:07Z
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Fassou, Georgia
Korotkova, Nadja
Nersesyan, Anush
Koch, Marcus A.
Dimopoulos, Panayotis
Borsch, Thomas
2022-05-23
<p>In this study, we present an overall phylogenetic framework for Dianthus using four plastid regions (matK-trnK-psbA, rpl32-trnL, trnQ-rps16) and nuclear ITS and a species-level checklist for the genus developed by using all available databases and the literature. The trees from the plastid dataset depict a clade of Dianthus that also includes Velezia and a few taxa of Petrorhagia. New combinations in Dianthus are provided for these species. The checklist of Dianthus in this new delimitation covers 1781 names, with 384 accepted species, 150 subspecies, 12 heterotypic varieties and two forms (not counting autonyms), 1050 synonyms, 22 hybrid names and 172 unresolved names, 3 names were excluded. Implications for the evolution of flower characters, life forms, biogeography, as well as sectional classification are discussed based on the phylogenetic framework.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.196.77940
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https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.196.77940.figure2
https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.196.77940.figure1
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https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.196.77940.figure4
https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.196.77940.figure1
https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.196.77940.suppl1
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PhytoKeys, 196, 91-214, (2022-05-23)
Biota
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Dianthus
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllales
Caucasus
Dianthus
EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy
Greece
Petrorhagia
phylogeny
taxonomy
Velezia
World Flora Online
Taxonomy of Dianthus (Caryophyllaceae) – overall phylogenetic relationships and assessment of species diversity based on a first comprehensive checklist of the genus
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oai:zenodo.org:4083659
2020-10-14T00:26:55Z
user-wfo
user-biosyslit
Hyam, Roger
2020-10-05
<p>Researchers have become accustomed to online access to data about specimens held in natural history collections. Over several decades, metadata standards have been developed to facilitate the sharing and aggregation of this data, notably Darwin Core and ABCD (Access to Biological Collections Data) developed under the auspices of TDWG but other standards developed in other communities, have also proved useful notably EML (Ecological Metadata Language) and GML (Geography Markup Language).</p><p>Data aggregators have arisen to both, drive standards development and take advantage of the vast number of records made available through this community effort. Examples include Atlas of Living Australia and spin off Atlas projects, EoL (Encyclopedia of Life), iDigBio, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), WFO (World Flora Online).</p><p>There are still many "dark specimens" that are not visible to the web and efforts continue to digitise metadata on these objects and make them available. The vast majority of the data that has been liberated so far, has therefore been text based and the standards reflect this, although many institutions and projects are also producing large numbers of images and other media.</p><p>There have been media extensions to some standards to accommodate the sharing of images and other multimedia formats. However, these are restricted to metadata about media objects rather than the exchange of media objects themselves. For example, two extensions to Darwin Core are <u>Audubon Core,</u> which is designed to "determine whether a particular resource or collection will be fit for some particular biodiversity science application before acquiring the media." and the Simple Multimedia extension, which is a "simple extension for exchanging metadata about multimedia resources". Therefore image exchange, in particular, has not used open standards. Projects have relied on transferring high resolution versions of images (e.g. submission of type specimen images to JSTOR) or cut down compressed versions (e.g. many herbarium specimens submitted to GBIF or Europeana). </p><p>The network has not allowed access to high resolution versions of images as curated by the host institutions themselves beyond basic links to web pages. If high resolution images have been published in online catalogues, they have been made available using a hotchpotch of different technologies including the now defunct Java Applets and Adobe Flash player. The network has not supported different views of the same specimen or annotations of those views, or integration of audio and moving images.</p><p>In an ideal world a researcher should be able to view and annotate images of specimens held across multiple collections in a unified way, and the host institutions should have access to those annotations and statistics on how their specimens are being used. How can we achieve this?</p><p>The sharing of multimedia representations of objects online is not a problem unique to the biodiversity community. Scholars in museums and archives of all kinds are facing the same issues. In 2011 the British Library, Stanford University, the Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University), the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, and Cornell University came together to develop an exchange standard called <u>IIIF</u> (International Image Interoperability Framework). This framework now consists of six APIs (Application Programming Interface), four stable and two in beta, to publish and integrate image and other multimedia resources in a uniform manner and has been adopted by many institutions and commercial partners in the digital humanities. Applications based on IIIF enable many of the features desired by biodiversity researchers.</p><p>The notion of sharing and annotating specimen images is not new to the natural history community. <u>MorphBank</u>, founded in 1998, has grown to allow much of this desirable functionality but at the cost and fragility of being a centralised database. The question we should perhaps be asking is: how can we make the biodiversity data sharing network as a whole more like MorphBank?</p><p>From 2019 to 2021, part of the EU-funded Synthesys+ programme will support the adoption of IIIF as a unified way to publish images of natural history specimens. We aim to have a set of exemplar institutions publishing IIIF manifests for some millions of specimens by the end of the project and one or more demonstration applications in place. We hope this will act as a catalyst for wider adoption in the natural history community. A key goal is to integrate image data served using IIIF with metadata available via CETAF (Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities) specimen identifiers. If IIIF were ubiquitous in the natural history community, building tools that implemented this functionality would be feasible.</p><p>A brief demonstration of a herbarium specimen browser, Herbaria Mundi, will be given. It will illustrate how specimens hosted in different institutions can be manipulated in a single interface. The architecture that supports this behaviour will be explained and its challenges, by implementing the institutions discussed.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59056
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 4, e59056, (2020-10-05)
CETAF ID
IIIF
International Image Interoperability Framework: A unified approach to sharing images of natural history specimens?
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oai:zenodo.org:3251235
2020-01-20T12:54:45Z
user-wfo
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Vargas, Manuel
Mora Cross, María
Cuadra, José
Ulate Rodríguez, William
2019-06-13
<p>The Atlas of Living Costa Rica (www.crbio.cr) is a biodiversity data portal based on the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and managed by the Biodiversity Informatics Research Center (CRBio) and the National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica (INBio). It currently shares nearly eight million occurrence records and more than 5000 species pages about Costa Rican vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, nematodes, plants, and fungi. These pages contain information elements pertaining to, for instance, morphological descriptions, distribution, habitat, conservation status, management, nomenclature, and multimedia (Vargas et al. 2018).</p>
<p>In order to fully integrate species pages into the ALA architecture, CRBio is working in the adoption of the Biodiversity Information Explorer (BIE), an ALA module which manages taxonomic and species contents by integrating global resources like EOL or Wikipedia. This adoption includes the required modifications to use the data model of the Plinian Core (https://github.com/tdwg/PlinianCore), a TDWG draft standard registered as an IPT extension, oriented to share species level information from local and regional sources too (Pando 2018). The advancement of Plinian Core has been lead by INBio, the Spanish Node of GBIF (GBIF Spain), the University of Granada (UG, Spain), the Alexander von Humboldt Institute (IAvH, Colombia), the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Conabio, Mexico) and the University of Sao Paulo (USP, Brazil). This group reviewed the existing data standards to reuse as many elements as possible and avoid redundancy. Besides the aforementioned, Plinian Core is currently used by other institutions like the Chilean Ministry of Environment.</p>
<p>Plinian Core was designed to be easy to use, self-contained, able to support data integration from multiple databases, and having the ability to handle different levels of granularity. These requirements are the result of actual needs from content creators that, through an iterative process, have yielded a more complete and flexible exchange standard to aggregate biological and non-biological species information, used by others like IBIN, the Indian Bioresource Information Network (Saran et al. 2018). Plinian Core aims to be a component in producing multiple species catalogues developed under specific constraints to serve specific purposes, instead of focusing on a unified platform while facilitating consistent aggregation and re-utilization of information (GBIF.org 2015). </p>
<p>We will present our implementation of the BIE module in the Atlas of Living Costa Rica, following the documented best practices when sharing species level information using Plinian Core. Our demonstration will detail our lessons learned from merging the aforementioned 5000 species pages provided by INBio with several thousand of species pages assembled from the information provided by the World Flora Online through the aggregation of different Flora resources, like Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica (Hammel et al. 2003) that provides 5,000 plants descriptions and 350 vernacular names (http://www.worldfloraonline.org/resource?query=Manual+de+Plantas+de+Costa+Rica).</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.35474
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3, e35474, (2019-06-13)
Atlas of Living Australia
living atlases
species pages
Plinian Core
Sharing Species Pages in the Atlas of Living Costa Rica using Plinian Core
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oai:zenodo.org:3251220
2020-01-20T13:58:07Z
user-wfo
user-biosyslit
Berendsohn, Walter G.
Miller, Chuck
Ulate, William
Watson, Mark
2019-06-13
<p>The World Flora Online initiative (www.worldfloraonline.org) is a global consortium of many of the world's leading botanical institutions with the aim to offer a worldwide information resource for plant information (Miller 2019). It aggregates information provided by the botanical community, either through specialized information systems or published taxonomic treatments and floras. WFO distinguishes contributions to the Taxonomic Backbone (i.e. the community-curated consensus system of scientific names, taxa, synonyms and their classification) from Content contributions (i.e. descriptive data, images, distribution, etc.). In the course of writing the guidelines for contributors, a format for the electronic submission of these data had to be developed. The expectation was that this would be a comparatively simple task, drawing on existing TDWG standards and using established formats and tools, i.e. Darwin Core Archive, the Integrated Publishing Toolkit and the DwC-A Validator tool. Actually, it was not that simple, as several problems had to be solved. First of all it was somewhat difficult to find authoritative sources on the web for existing data definitions. That solved, the actual definitions were, in some cases not really adequate for use by the botanical community, or a narrower description had to be given, or our portal software (based on the eMonocot portal system developed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) required a different controlled vocabulary. A decision was taken to follow the DwC naming conventions for data elements, although in some cases the designations - or at least the applications in a checklist context - were patently wrong (e.g. "taxonID" as the identifier for names, including synonyms). For Content contributions, the DwC-A standard star schema was useful, but it was not appropriate for backbone contributions with their multiple relationships e.g., to literature references. This experience underlines the necessity for a coherent documentation of standards (see Blum (2019)), including user-friendly access to definitions, data validation tools and clear guidelines for extensions/subtyping also at the element-level.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.35232
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3, e35232, (2019-06-13)
TDWG Standards; Darwin Core; Data definition; World Flora Online; Botany
Caught in the concept jungle: developing a format for data contributions to the World Flora Online
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oai:zenodo.org:1162801
2020-01-20T17:10:01Z
user-wfo
Loizeau, Pierre-André
Price, Michelle J.
Maeder, Anouchka
Smith, Paul
Sharrock, Suzanne
2018-01-30
<p>The <strong>Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva</strong> (CJBG) obtained from the Board of Directors of the <strong>Botanic Gardens Conservation International</strong>, the privilege of hosting the <strong>6<sup>th</sup> Global Botanic Gardens Congress</strong>, in connection with the commemoration of the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the foundation of the Botanical Garden of Geneva, by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, on the 19 November 1817.<br>
The event was held in Geneva from the 25<sup>th</sup> to 30<sup>th</sup> June, 2017, at the International Conference Center of Geneva (CICG) and the CJBG.<br>
Around 500 participants from more than 60 countries participated in the 10 plenary sessions, 200 lectures and 15 excursions.<br>
Having renounced the production of the proceedings of the Congress, we thought that it would be useful to publish the abstracts of conferences, symposiums, round-tables, workshops and posters that were presented at the congress electronically.<br>
Abstracts of the presentations or discussions in the plenary sessions are not included, but they were filmed, except for the discussion led by Paul Smith on Tuesday morning where technical dificulties were encountered. The links to the site hosting these videos are embedded in this electronic document. The links to the videos of opening and closing ceremonies of the congress<br>
are also included.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1162801
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1158430
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Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Genève, Hors série, 18, XX, 197, (2018-01-30)
Botanic Gardens
Jardins botaniques
Plant Conservation
Conservation des plantes
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève
Education
Botanic Gardens Management
World Flora Online
Global Strategy for Plants Conservation
6th Global Botanic Gardens Congress - 6e Congrès Mondial des Jardins Botaniques - Abstracts - Résumés
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oai:zenodo.org:1158431
2020-01-20T17:22:49Z
user-wfo
Loizeau, Pierre-André
Price, Michelle J.
Maeder, Anouchka
Smith, Paul
Sharrock, Suzanne
2018-01-24
<p>The <strong>Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva</strong> (CJBG) obtained from the Board of Directors of the <strong>Botanic Gardens Conservation International</strong>, the privilege of hosting the <strong>6<sup>th</sup> Global Botanic Gardens Congress</strong>, in connection with the commemoration of the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the foundation of the Botanical Garden of Geneva, by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, on the 19 November 1817.<br>
The event was held in Geneva from the 25<sup>th</sup> to 30<sup>th</sup> June, 2017, at the International Conference Center of Geneva (CICG) and the CJBG.<br>
Around 500 participants from more than 60 countries participated in the 10 plenary sessions, 200 lectures and 15 excursions.<br>
Having renounced the production of the proceedings of the Congress, we thought that it would be useful to publish the abstracts of conferences, symposiums, round-tables, workshops and posters that were presented at the congress electronically.<br>
Abstracts of the presentations or discussions in the plenary sessions are not included, but they were filmed, except for the discussion led by Paul Smith on Tuesday morning where technical dificulties were encountered. The links to the site hosting these videos are embedded in this electronic document. The links to the videos of opening and closing ceremonies of the congress<br>
are also included.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1158431
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1158430
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Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Genève, Hors série, 18, XX, 197, (2018-01-24)
Botanic Gardens
Jardins botaniques
Plant Conservation
Conservation des plantes
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève
Education
Botanic Gardens Management
World Flora Online
Global Strategy for Plants Conservation
6th Global Botanic Gardens Congress - 6e Congrès Mondial des Jardins Botaniques - Abstracts - Résumés
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oai:zenodo.org:7021085
2022-08-25T14:26:18Z
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Agosti, Donat
Benichou, Laurence
Penev, Lyubomir
Hyam, Roger
2022-08-23
<p>Thousands of new species are discovered each year, and new results are published to add to the knowledge of existing species. A growing number of these are immediately accessible through the Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) and reused by Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), bringing the number of treatments covering plant species to over 25,000 treatments. This includes the findable, accessible, interoperable, and resuable (FAIR) treatments and related figures, and in many cases the material citation of the holotype, and links to the collection, specimen and gene sequences attribured to the codes. The FAIR data is deposited in the Biodiversity Literature Repository ensuring long-term access, and includes rich, customized metadata describing its content using standard vocabularies (e.g. Darwin Core (DwC) or Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry, as well as links to related items and data reuse (e.g. GBIF and CheckListbank).</p><p>TreatmentBank is a European Research Infrastructure, which annotates taxonomic publications including quality control, as much as possible by machine, and as needed by human curation. The process is versatile, the output can be customized and immediately used by GBIF and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics library system (SIBiLS) to add treatments akin to articles in PubMed Central. Another focus of conversion could be floras (several series published in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle including those that are currently only available in print). In addition to the articles provided through these collaborations, other journals were processed, totaling 5,900 articles with 54,000 treatments of which 5,600 are plants, 48,000 figures, 140,000 material citations, of which 9,000 (670 plants) are new species and 670 (16) new genera described in 2021. Arcadia Fund is funding a project to include over 100 additional journals into the daily processing, as well as annotating data from legacy publications, with the possibility of including more journals covering plant taxonomy. The workflow is based on the open source software GoldenGate Imagine, a tool used to convert articles from PDF format into an Image Markup File (IMF) export file including all the annotations in a set of CSV files and allowing checking and improve the quality of data. The quality control parameter can be defined according to specific user requirements and the curation of the annotation can be done as part of the workflow or by third parties. The IMF can be uploaded to TreatmentBank where FAIR data is generated through their deposits in the Biodiversity Literature Repository. All the data is accessible from the Plazi API in various formats such as XML, DwC-A (DarwinCore Archive) or RDF, and checked when the data has been deposited or reused by returning the link of the respective recipient's reuse identifier. Furthermore, the treatment citations annotated in the publications provide access to the treatments related to the same taxon, including synonyms.</p><p>In this presentation, we explain the data annotated and made FAIR by TreatmentBank in order to discuss what would be needed to import this rapidly increasing corpus of taxonomic treatments as a new source for WFO (World Flora Online). A side effect of the discussion could be suggestions to publishers on how they should provide data so that the taxonomic data can be automatically integrated into WFO to keep it as up-to-date as possible.</p>
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A Possible Workflow from New and Legacy Publications to keep the World Flora Online up to date with New Species and Augmenting Taxonomic Treatments
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Elliott, Alan
Bruneau, Anne
Crowley, Dan
Bartolucci, Fabrizio
Galasso, Gabriele
Atkins, Hannah
Strijk, Joeri Sergej
Miller, Joseph T.
Roux, Margaretha Marianne Le
Hughes, Mark
Bonifacino, Mauricio
Moeller, Michael
Korotkova, Nadja
Couvreur, Thomas
Haevermans, Thomas
Mustaqim, Wendy A.
World Checklist of Vascular Plants, facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The Caryophyllales Taxonomic Expert Network
The Bryophyte Taxonomic Expert Network
The Annonaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Haloragaceae and related Families Taxonomic Expert Network
The Apocynaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Aquifoliaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Conifer Taxonomic Expert Network
The Arecaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Begoniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Boraginaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Bruniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cabombaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Commelinales Taxonomic Expert Network
The Asteraceaae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Caryophyllales Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cycad Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dioscoreaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dipterocarpaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Ericaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Fagaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Gesneriaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Hypericum Taxonomic Expert Network
The Irvingiaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Fabaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Mayacaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Melastomataceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Musaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Ochnaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Papaveraceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Picramniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Poaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Sapindaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Sapotaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Endemic Plant Families of Madagascar Taxonomic Expert Network
The Solanaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Styracaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Zingiberaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Asphodelaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The World Flora Online Consortium
Elliott, Alan
Hyam, Roger
Ulate, William
Katabathuni, Sunitha
Miller, Chuck
Watson, Mark
2022-12-21
<p>A global consensus classification of vascular plants and bryophytes used as the taxonomic backbone for the World Flora Online (WFO) portal (<a href="http://www.worldfloraonline.org/">http://www.worldfloraonline.org</a>) and the WFO Plant List (<a href="https://wfoplantlist.org">https://wfoplantlist.org</a>).</p>
<p>Initiated in 2012, WFO has developed to represent a comprehensive knowledge base on the world’s plant species. Comprising over 50 botanical institutions and organisations worldwide, the WFO Consortium recognizes the need for the synthesis of botanical knowledge that has been generated through more than 260 years of botanical exploration, taxonomic and, more recently, phylogenetic research throughout the world. Endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity, WFO supports the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (<a href="https://www.plants2020.net">https://www.plants2020.net</a>) and the <a href="https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/e6d3/cd1d/daf663719a03902a9b116c34/cop-15-l-25-en.pdf">Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework</a>.</p>
<p>WFO has become a first-ever global source of information on the world’s plant diversity supported by the international taxonomic community. At the heart of the WFO is a checklist which aims to provide the most up to date source of scientific plant names and their synonyms compiled. The WFO checklist is curated, moderated and updated by an expert and specialist-based global community (Taxonomic Expert Networks ,TENs) covering a taxonomic group.</p>
<p>The initial data ingestion into the WFO checklist was undertaken in 2015 using data from The Plant List Version 1.1 (TPL, September 2013). The list of datasets contributing to TPL is given here: <a href="https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors">https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors</a>.</p>
<p>New taxonomic names and data updates are regularly incorporated into WFO from nomenclators: International Plant Name Index (IPNI, <a href="https://www.ipni.org/">https://www.ipni.org</a>) for vascular plants, and Tropicos (<a href="https://www.tropicos.org/">https://www.tropicos.org</a>) for bryophytes.</p>
<p>Classification and nomenclatural updates have been incorporated from WFO TENs, and classification data for taxonomic groups not yet covered by a TEN have been incorporated from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants version 2.0 (WCVP, <a href="https://wcvp.science.kew.org/">https://wcvp.science.kew.org</a>), facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</p>
<p>New versions of this global consensus classification are released every six months, in June and December. Detail of the changes since June 2022, incorporated this December 2022 release, are given here: <a href="https://about.worldfloraonline.org/december-2022-release">https://about.worldfloraonline.org/december-2022-release</a></p>
<p>This data repository includes the following files:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>wfo_plantlist_2022-12.zip</strong> The Catalogue of Life Data Package of the WFO Plant List. This is the most expressive standards based form of the list.</li>
<li><strong>plant_list_2022-12.json.zip</strong> JSON formatted version of the WFO Plant List. This has been designed for direct import into a schemaless instance of a SOLR index and is used to drive the WFO Plant List API (<a href="https://list.worldfloraonline.org">https://list.worldfloraonline.org</a>) which in turn drives the WFO Plant List in the portal. This is recommended if you want a local, read only version of the list rather than use the API.</li>
<li><strong>plant_list_2022-12.sql.gz</strong> This is the complete production database (minus logging data and API keys) as a MySQL backup file. It can be restored directly to a MySQL 5.7 or later instance if you require the list in SQL format.</li>
<li><strong>ipni_to_wfo.csv.gz</strong> A file mapping all the IPNI IDs we track to their associated WFO IDs.</li>
<li><strong>families_dwc.tar.gz</strong> Individual Darwin Core Archive files for each of 718 recognized families. If you want a single family in DwC but can't load the whole list download and expand this file. Family and genus files are also available for download through the portal.</li>
<li><strong>_DwC_backbone_R.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing non deprecated names and taxa for use in the existing R package.</li>
<li><strong>_uber.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing all names and taxa even those that are deprecated along with some extra columns<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<p>A static copy of the Taxonomic Backbone data is available for download here. These data are provided as Public Domain CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).</p>
<p>Nomenclatural and classification information used for the initial data ingestion into the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone was provided by The Plant List Version 1.1 (September 2013). The data resources used to build The Plant List were contributed by: African Plants Database (Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of the City of Geneva and South African National Biodiversity Institute); GrassBase; The Global Compositae Checklist (International Compositae Alliance); The International Legume Database and Information Service; The International Organisation for Plant Information; International Plant Names Index (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria, and Australian National Herbarium); The iPlants Project (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden, and New York Botanical Garden); Missouri Botanical Garden (Bryophyte Checklist, Checklist of Bolivia, Flora of China Checklist, Checklist of Ecuador, Flora Mesoamericana, Checklist of Panama, Checklist of Peru); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Rosaceae), and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. See www.theplantlist.org/1.1/about/#collaborators for further details.</p>
<p>This initial backbone is now being actively curated by taxonomic specialists of particular plant groups, with Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) given responsibility for updating the classifications of families. The WFO Consortium welcomes participation of the world’s community of botanists to create and join TENs, to help improve the WFO taxonomic backbone and so develop an up-to-date global consensus classification. If you would like to join them or contribute please check the list of current WFO Taxonomic Expert Networks and their contact information in the <a href="http://about.worldfloraonline.org/tens">About</a> page.</p>
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<p>A static copy of the Taxonomic Backbone data is available for download here. These data are provided as Public Domain CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).</p>
<p>Nomenclatural and classification information used for the initial data ingestion into the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone was provided by The Plant List Version 1.1 (September 2013). The data resources used to build The Plant List were contributed by: African Plants Database (Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of the City of Geneva and South African National Biodiversity Institute); GrassBase; The Global Compositae Checklist (International Compositae Alliance); The International Legume Database and Information Service; The International Organisation for Plant Information; International Plant Names Index (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria, and Australian National Herbarium); The iPlants Project (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden, and New York Botanical Garden); Missouri Botanical Garden (Bryophyte Checklist, Checklist of Bolivia, Flora of China Checklist, Checklist of Ecuador, Flora Mesoamericana, Checklist of Panama, Checklist of Peru); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Rosaceae), and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. See www.theplantlist.org/1.1/about/#collaborators for further details.</p>
<p>This initial backbone is now being actively curated by taxonomic specialists of particular plant groups, with Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) given responsibility for updating the classifications of families. The WFO Consortium welcomes participation of the world’s community of botanists to create and join TENs, to help improve the WFO taxonomic backbone and so develop an up-to-date global consensus classification. If you would like to join them or contribute please check the list of current WFO Taxonomic Expert Networks and their contact information in the <a href="http://about.worldfloraonline.org/tens">About</a> page.</p>
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The Bryophyte Taxonomic Expert Network
The Annonaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Haloragaceae and related Families Taxonomic Expert Network
The Apocynaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Aquifoliaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Conifer Taxonomic Expert Network
The Arecaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Begoniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Boraginaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Bruniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cabombaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Calophyllaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dipsacales Taxonomic Expert Network
The Commelinales Taxonomic Expert Network
The Asteraceaae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cycad Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cyperaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dioscoreaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dipterocarpaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Ebenaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Ericaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Fagaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Gesneriaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Hypericum Taxonomic Expert Network
The Irvingiaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Fabaceae Taxonomic Expert Network - Legume Taxonomy Working Group
The Lowiaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Mayacaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Melastomataceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Musaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Ochnaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Papaveraceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Picramniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Poaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Putranjivaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Sapindaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Sapotaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Endemic Plant Families of Madagascar Taxonomic Expert Network
The Solanaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Styracaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Zingiberaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Asphodelaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
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Hyam, Roger
Ulate, William
Watson, Mark
Anderson, Gregory
Andrella, Giovani carlos
Anguiano, Marco
Ardi, Wisnu handoyo
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Atwood, John j.
Aubriot, Xavier
Baker, William
Balan, Anoop puthuparampil
Bartolucci, Fabrizio
Berendsohn, Walter g.
Bonifacino, Mauricio
Borges, Leonardo
Brinda, John c.
Brown, Gillian
Bruneau, Anne
Cardoso, Domingos
Carvalho, Catarina silva de
Chiarini, Franco
Couvreur, Thomas
Crowley, Dan
Duan, Lei
Durán, Juan david tovar
Egan, Ashley n
Eggli, Urs
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Estrella, Manuel de la
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Franck, Alan
Fritsch, Peter
Gagnon, Edeline
Galasso, Gabriele
Galdo, Gianpietro giusso del
Giacomin, Leandro
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Gissi, Danilo soares
Gonzáles, Paúl
Gouvêa, Yuri
Govaerts, Rafaël herman anna
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Guerrero, Pablo c.
Haegi, Laurence
Haevermans, Thomas
Harris, David j.
Hilario, Robin fernandez
Hopkins, Helen fortune
Hua-feng
Hughes, Mark
Iganci, João
J.g., Rando,
Jara-muñoz, Orlando adolfo
Javadi, Firouzeh
Jiang, Kai-wen
Jiménez-mejías, Pedro
Jordão, Lucas sá barreto
Keller, Héctor
Klitgaard, Bente
Klopper, R.r.
Korotkova, Nadja
Köhler, Matias
Larridon, Isabel
Lavandero, Nicolás
Leong-skornickova, Jana
Lewis, Gwilym
Liede-schumann, Sigrid
Lima, Alexandre gibau de
Martine, Chris
Maslin, Bruce
Mering, Sabine von
Metzing, Detlev
Meve, Ulrich
Miller, Joseph t.
Moeller, Michael
Moonlight, Peter
Morales, J francisco
Moreira-munoz, Andres
Murphy, Daniel
Mustaqim, Wendy a.
Müller, Andreas
Nelson, Charles
Nersesyan, Anush
Newman, Mark
Orejuela, Andres
Pandey, Arun
Pellegrini, Marco o. o.
Pennington, Toby
Pinto, Rafael
Pirie, Michael d.
Poulsen, Axel dalberg
Puglisi, Carmen
Quintanar, Alejandro
Rakotonirina, Nivohenintsoa
Ramos, Gustavo
Rapini, Alessandro
Rodda, Michele
Rodrigues, Rodrigo schütz
Roux, Margaretha marianne le
Sampaio, Valéria da silva
Santilli, Ludovica
Schlumpberger, Boris
Schneider, Julio v.
Silva, Rafael costa
Simon, Marcelo
Smith, Stacey
Sokoloff, Dmitry
Sotuyo, Solange
Stirton, Charles
Straub, Shannon
Strijk, Joeri sergej
Sánchez, Daniel
Tebbitt, Mark
Tepe, Eric
Thomas, Daniel caspar
Thulin, Mats
Trad, Rafaela
Vorontsova, Maria (bat) s.
Wilding, Nicholas
Wilson, Hannah
Zamora-tavares, Pilar
Zhang, Rong
Zizka, Georg
2023-12-22
<p>A global consensus classification of vascular plants and bryophytes used as the taxonomic backbone for the World
Flora Online (WFO) portal (<a href="http://www.worldfloraonline.org/">http://www.worldfloraonline.org</a>) and the
WFO Plant List (<a href="https://wfoplantlist.org">https://wfoplantlist.org</a>).</p>
<p>Initiated in 2012, WFO has developed to represent a comprehensive knowledge base on the world’s plant
species. Comprising over 50 botanical institutions and organisations worldwide, the WFO Consortium recognizes
the need for the synthesis of botanical knowledge that has been generated through more than 260 years of botanical
exploration, taxonomic and, more recently, phylogenetic research throughout the world. Endorsed by the Convention on
Biological Diversity, WFO supports the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (<a href="https://www.plants2020.net">https://www.plants2020.net</a>) and the <a href="https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/e6d3/cd1d/daf663719a03902a9b116c34/cop-15-l-25-en.pdf">Montreal-Kunming Global
Biodiversity Framework</a>.</p>
<p>WFO has become a first-ever global source of information on the world’s plant diversity supported by the
international taxonomic community. At the heart of the WFO is a checklist which aims to provide the most up to date
source of scientific plant names and their synonyms compiled. The WFO checklist is curated, moderated and updated by
an expert and specialist-based global community (Taxonomic Expert Networks ,TENs) covering a taxonomic group.</p>
<p>The initial data ingestion into the WFO checklist was undertaken in 2015 using data from The Plant List Version 1.1
(TPL, September 2013). The list of datasets contributing to TPL is given here: <a href="https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors">https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors</a>.
</p>
<p>New taxonomic names and data updates are regularly incorporated into WFO from nomenclators: International Plant Name
Index (IPNI, <a href="https://www.ipni.org/">https://www.ipni.org</a>) for vascular plants, and Tropicos (<a href="https://www.tropicos.org/">https://www.tropicos.org</a>) for bryophytes.</p>
<p>Classification and nomenclatural updates have been incorporated from WFO TENs, and classification data for taxonomic
groups not yet covered by a TEN have been incorporated from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP,
<a href=" https://wcvp.science.kew.org">https://wcvp.science.kew.org</a>), facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew.
</p>
<p>New versions of this global consensus classification are released every six months, in June and December. Detail of
the changes since June 2023, incorporated this December 2023 release, are given here: <a href="https://about.worldfloraonline.org/december-2023-release">https://about.worldfloraonline.org/december-2023-release</a>.
</p>
<p>This data repository includes the following files:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>wfo_plantlist_2023-12.zip</strong> The Catalogue of Life Data Package of the WFO Plant List. This is the
most expressive standards based form of the list.</li>
<li><strong>plant_list_2023-12.json.gz</strong> JSON formatted version of the WFO Plant List. This has been
designed for direct import into a schemaless instance of a SOLR index and is used to drive the WFO Plant List
API (<a href="https://list.worldfloraonline.org">https://list.worldfloraonline.org</a>) which in turn drives the
WFO Plant List in the portal. This is recommended if you want a local, read only version of the list rather than
use the API.</li>
<li><strong>plant_list_2023-12.sql.gz</strong> This is the complete production database (minus logging data and API
keys) as a MySQL backup file. It can be restored directly to a MySQL 8.0 or later instance if you require the
list in SQL format.</li>
<li><strong>ipni_to_wfo.csv.gz</strong> A file mapping all the IPNI IDs we track to their associated WFO IDs.</li>
<li><strong>families_dwc.tar.gz</strong> Individual Darwin Core Archive files for each of 718 recognized families.
If you want a single family in DwC but can't load the whole list download and expand this file. Family and
genus files are also available for download through the portal.</li>
<li><strong>_DwC_backbone_R.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing non deprecated names and taxa
for use in the existing R package.</li>
<li><strong>_uber.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing all names and taxa even those that are
deprecated along with some extra columns<br>
</li>
</ul>
New versions of the WFO Plant List are released each solstice, in June and December.
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Bryophytes
Pteridophytes
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World Flora Online Plant List December 2023
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Miller, Chuck
2019-06-26
<p>The World Flora Online (WFO) project was initiated in 2012 in response to Target 1 of the Congress on Biological Diversity's Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) – "To create an online flora of all known plants by 2020". Target 1 is intended to enable and support the additional 15 targets of the GSPC because plant conservation requires a stable foundation of taxonomic and descriptive information. A WFO Consortium has been formed of 42 international partners and growing. The World Flora Online Public Portal (www.worldfloraonline.org) was launched at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, China in July, 2017. The baseline Public Portal was initially populated with a taxonomic backbone of plant names and taxonomic data gathered from The Plant List, later augmented by newer taxonomic sources like Solanaceae Source. All names in the backbone are assigned globally unique WFOIDs that facilitate ingestion and update of both taxonomic and descriptive data. The next phase of the World Flora Online involves more enhancement of the taxonomic backbone by new plant Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) and acceleration of ingestion of descriptive data from digital floras and monographs, as well as threat status data from other sources like International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Descriptive data can include text descriptions, images, geographic distributions, identification keys, phylogenetic trees, as well as atomized trait data like threat status, lifeform or habitat. Initial digital descriptive datasets have been incorporated from Flora of Brazil, Flora of South Africa, Flora of China, Flora of North Africa, Flora of Australia, and many others. Hard work continues to match the names associated with the newly submitted descriptions to the names in the WFO taxonomic backbone and then ingest the descriptive data elements into the WFO database. Numerous data tools have been added to the WFO infrastructure to accomplish the data cleaning, standardization and transformation required before descriptive data can be integrated. This presentation will review the history of WFO, the design of the WFO infrastructure and plans for its use, and future directions.</p>
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The World Flora Online – Research Infrastructure for Plant Conservation
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2020-01-20T15:36:18Z
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Ulate, William
2019-06-13
<p>In 2013, the World Flora Online (WFO) Consortium Council decided to use version 1.1 of the The Plant List (TPL) to initially populate the WFO taxonomic backbone. TPL is a collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden and other stakeholders to create a comprehensive list of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts). By combining multiple checklist held by these institutions, TPL 1.1 contained 1,064,035 scientific plant names of species rank, 350,699 of which were accepted species names. TPL provides the Accepted Latin names linked to Synonyms by which that species has been known. It also includes Unresolved names for which the contributing data sources did not contain sufficient evidence to decide whether they were Accepted or Synonyms.</p>
<p>Fortunately, TPL keeps track of the provenance of names and links back to the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) repository. This provenance trace has proven crucial when giving proper credit, as well as implementing a reliable curating process in WFO that supports the incorporation of potential new content, updates and further improvements contributed by the source. We will see some examples in WFO where duplication of names is originated from combining different providers and different sources, but also cases where duplication was caused within the same provider and even within a single source.</p>
<p>The WFO Council also decided to adopt the software used by eMonocot.org to display and harvest the information of plants. This decision made it possible to take advantage of the efforts previously done by the Monocots group in using already defined standards and existing tools to create and validate the input files harvested. Unfortunately, no technical documentation nor support was available for the eMonocot software and adapting the software code was not an option then. Therefore, a process of reverse engineering was implemented to determine what input was expected, which harvested values were actually stored in the database and what impact, if any, they could have on the Portal function. For example, the eMonocot software always harvests content under a particular hierarchy where an authority, in this case corresponding to a family taxon, holds ownership of the taxa underneath. We will explain how this may become an issue when incorporating new endemic taxa.</p>
<p>To ensure a convenient quality control, processes of validation and data curation were implemented. WFO assigns a unique ID to each name in its taxonomic backbone. The guarantee of uniqueness and permanence of such IDs is essential to support a process of cumulative improvement. To obtain this ID, a tool that matches Names was developed, allowing providers to contribute revisions to the taxonomy and descriptive content associated to a taxon. The origin of changes needs to be considered when tracing and correcting errors, implementing modifications or rolling back them later.</p>
<p>A report about the result of requested changes in the taxonomy needs to be approved by the provider before any actual change is implemented in the taxonomic backbone. Programmatically, any process that performs quality assessment or makes data modifications must be implemented as parameterized algorithms to allow replication of the process whenever new or updated data is available from the source. Single-use scripts are quick but not very scalable.</p>
<p>Finally, having defined a schema to use when providing content doesn't necessarily imply that the values provided in each field are correct. Even with standardized values, the semantics associated could cause unforeseen behavior in the process implemented by the software. When possible, an additional step was required to convert harvested data from different localized vocabularies for standardized fields. Examples in Portuguese and Turkish will be given.</p>
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3, e35245, (2019-06-13)
Quality Control
Plants
Flora
WFO
World Flora Online
TPL
The Plant List
Taxonomic Backbone
Taxonomic Aggregators
Portal
Lessons Learned from Managing Millions of Records to Create the World Flora Online
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2022-08-03T13:48:53Z
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Korotkova, Nadja
2022-08-01
<p>The Caryophyllales TEN is one of the Taxonomic Expert Networks for the World Flora Online (WFO, worldfloraonline.org). It was initiated in 2011 with the aim to create a global taxonomic synthesys of the angiosperm order Caryophyllales (about 6% of the angiosperm species). The network currently includes about 170 scientists from 36 countries. The first priority is creating a dynamic taxonomic backbone for the order using the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy (cybertaxonomy.org).</p><p>One key product is an online portal (caryophyllales.org) that serves as a single entry point for expert-reviewed information. The EDIT Data Portal is one of the software components of the EDIT Platform (see the list of reference projects for further examples). Data entry, imports and editing is managed by the Taxonomic Editor component. Web services and data exchange via standardized formats will be used to connect to international biodiversity informatics initiatives such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and the International Plant Name Index. The data are available in a standardized format for open data exchange.</p><p>Completed checklist projects with accompanying data papers so far consist of a genus-level checklist of the whole order (Hernández-Ledesma et al. 2015) and species-level treatments for Nepenthaceae (Berendsohn et al. 2018), Cactaceae (Korotkova et al. 2021) and <em>Dianthus, </em>Caryophyllaceae (Fassou et al. 2022). The entire Caryophyllaceae, Plumbaginaceae and the Amaranthaceae are under revision, Aizoaceae and most of the smaller families have been revised based on literature. These projects all aimed to network existing specialists for the respective families and to produce checklists that reflect the current state of research on the given group, where possible based on phylogenetic studies.</p><p>The Caryophyllales TEN is coordinated by a scientist at the Botanic Garden Berlin but otherwise has no explicit governance or committees. The experiences from the aforementioned projects allow for some general insights as to organizing and maintaining a taxonomic expert network. Whereas a scientific network is usually a relatively loose connection between collaborators with varying levels of commitment over time, a strong expert network that works towards a specific product needs a firmer structure. According to our experience, five aspects are important.</p><p>1. Clarity. A clearly defined framework which can include the written summary of the rationale and the main underlying principles, detailed editorial guidelines and guidelines for contributors, best-practice recommendations, a clear outline of different roles which experts can have in the project, and requirements for authorship on resulting publications. </p><p>2. Flexibility. The framework should be defined in a way that it still allows flexible approaches to the individual projects and the roles that can account for varying levels of commitment and needs of individual researchers.</p><p>3. Community aspect. Bringing experts together regularly through in-person conferences or virtual meetings is essential to keep the network going. Participation should be open for everyone who is interested, regardless of career level and there should be different lowthreshold "entry points". These can be participation in a conference, being invited to contribute to a checklist or seeking out other experts for collaboration. Already active experts can engage and further connect people to the network, thus creating a large and strong community.</p><p>4. Credits. Our policy is that each source is referenced and each individual contribution is acknowledged in the data paper and online portal. This aims at increasing the visibility of research results and developing best-practice approaches within the community.</p><p>5. Incentives and commitment. People will participate in such networks because they have a strong personal interest to invest their time and energy in a project that is valuable to them and aligns with their own goals. Expert networks need committed people and therefore, there must be strong incentives, for example being part of a widely known and highly visible initiative or co-authoring a key data paper.</p>
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 6, e91113, (2022-08-01)
World Flora Online
taxonomy
EDIT Data Portal
GBIF
Organizing and Maintaining a Taxonomic Expert Network: Lessons from the Caryophyllales TEN
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2022-08-28T02:26:21Z
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Miller, Chuck
Berendsohn, Walter
Ulate, William
2022-08-24
<p>The World Flora Online (WFO) project was initiated in 2012 in response to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation – "To create an online flora of all known plants by 2020" (CBD 2010, Wyse Jackson 2013). A WFO Consortium of 50 international institutions and growing has been formed (see Wyse Jackson and Miller (2015) for a historical overview).</p><p>The World Flora Online Public Portal (www.worldfloraonline.org) was relaunched in July, 2022. It is populated with a taxonomic backbone of plant taxonomic data, which integrates the International Plant Name Index (IPNI), World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP, Govaerts et al. 2022), Tropicos, Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV (A.P.G. 2016), Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (Schüttpelz 2016) and others supplemented, inter alia, by the Global Compositae Checklist and Solanaceae Source. The WFO taxonomic backbone aims at covering all "effectively published" (Turland 2018) plant names that are in use or found in taxonomic literature and to integrate them into a modern phylogeny-based system of classification (Borsch et al. 2020). To facilitate the ongoing curation of the WFO backbone, identifiers, called WFO-IDs, have been created for 1.4 million names, including both vascular and non-vascular plants. WFO IDs are also cross-referenced to IPNI and WCVP identifiers as well as to the name IDs used in the source databases. WFO is updating the taxonomic backbone by engagement of new plant Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) focused on selected plant groups (for an example see Korotkova, this symposium), thus contributing to a transparent and inclusive reorganisation of the taxonomic research community.</p><p>WFO also includes by now over 600,000 "content" data items gathered from digital floras and monographs, and other sources like International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) threat assessments and the Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) Global Tree Assessment. Content data can be text descriptions, images, geographic distributions, identification keys, phylogenetic trees, as well as atomized trait data like threat status, lifeform or habitat of a taxon. Over 30 digital descriptive datasets have been received from sources such as Flora of Brazil, Flora of South Africa, Flora of China, Flora of North America, Flora of Thailand and many others. WFO aims at clearly showing the original sources to give credit to the authors, both for backbone and content data.</p><p>Extensive work is required to match the names associated with the submitted descriptions to the names and WFO-IDs in the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone and then merging the descriptive data elements into the WFO Portal. Numerous techniques have been adopted and created to accomplish the data cleaning, standardization and transformation required before descriptive data can be integrated. Among the new tools created is a system called Rhakhis developed at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Hyam et al. 2022). Rhakhis is used to manage the WFO taxonomic backbone data including ingestion, editing and export and includes APIs to access the versioned backbone data.</p><p>This presentation will focus on the current state and plans for the future of the World Flora Online.</p>
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 6, e93898, (2022-08-24)
flora
plants
plant names
plant taxonomy
plant descriptions
global strategy for plant conservation
taxonomic expert network
The World Flora Online: Summary and Status
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2020-01-20T16:22:27Z
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Miller, Chuck
Ulate, William
2017-08-23
<p>In its decision X/17, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a consolidated update of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) for the decade 2011–2020 at its 10<sup>th</sup> Conference of the Parties held in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010. The updated GSPC includes five objectives and 16 targets to be achieved by 2020. Target 1 aims to complete the ambitious target of <em>"an online flora of all known plants"</em> by 2020. A widely accessible Flora of all known plant species is a fundamental requirement for plant conservation and provides a baseline for the achievement and monitoring of other targets of the Strategy. The previous (GSPC 2010) target 1 aimed to develop "a widely accessible working list of known plant species as a step towards a complete world flora," and this target was achieved at the end of 2010, as The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org). Drawing from the knowledge gained in producing The Plant List, a project to create an online world Flora of all known plant species was initiated in 2012. A World Flora Online (WFO) Council has been formed with thirty six participating institutions world-wide who are diligently working to achieve the 2020 Target. The WFO portal is hosted at the Google Cloud and is online at http://www.worldfloraonline.org. WFO utilizes a taxonomic backbone of all vascular plants and bryophytes from orders to subspecies. Rapid progress is now being made toward incorporation of descriptive data, distributions and images. This poster will describe the vision, technical approach, progress to date and plans for this significant global project.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20529
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Proceedings of TDWG, 1, e20529, (2017-08-23)
Plants
Flora
WFO
World Flora Online
GSPC
World Flora Online Project: An online flora of all known plants
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2023-03-02T14:26:40Z
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Hyam, Roger
2023-03-02
<p>Every six months the <a href="http://www.worldfloraonline.org/">World Flora Online</a> publishes a new checklist of plant names. The checklist is available at <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7467360">doi:10.5281/zenodo.7467360</a></p>
<p>In December 2022 the publication mechanism began to include the data in JSON format for direct import into a <a href="https://solr.apache.org/">SOLR</a> index. As part of this change JSON format files were created for the previous data releases so that they can be imported into the same SOLR index as those from December 2022 onwards. This archive contains those JSON files.</p>
<p>It is be possible to create the full history of the WFO Plant List in a SOLR index by loading these files followed by the JSON files provided in each data release from December 2022 onward.</p>
<p> </p>
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WFO Plant List JSON Datasets 2018 to 2022
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2023-08-20T02:26:53Z
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Miller, Chuck
Berendsohn, Walter
Ulate, William
Hyam, Roger
2023-08-17
<p>The World Flora Online (WFO) project (Borsch et al. 2020) was initiated in 2012 in response to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation*1, "To create an online flora of all known plants by 2020" (Wyse Jackson and Kennedy 2009). A WFO Consortium of over 40 international institutions has been formed. The World Flora Online Public Portal*2 is built upon a taxonomic backbone of plant taxonomic data that integrates the International Plant Name Index (IPNI)*3, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP)*4, Tropicos*5, Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 4*6, Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (PPG I 2016), supplemented by the Global Compositae Checklist*7, Solanaceae Source*8, and others. To facilitate the ongoing curation of the WFO backbone, identifiers called WFO-IDs have been created for each of the over 1.59 million names included in WFO. WFO-IDs are comprehensive for all known plants, both vascular and non-vascular except algae. IPNI-IDs are limited to vascular plants and do not give the current taxonomic status of the name. WFO-IDs also cover invalid designations, i.e., some effectively published "names" like orthographic variants that have been used in taxonomic literature, so that their invalid status is made explicit. WFO IDs follow FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Relationships between WFO-IDs are also recorded by the WFO Taxonomic Backbone, including synonymy and homonymy, and are accessible via the WFO Portal. WFO is continuously updating the taxonomic backbone by engagement of new plant Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) focused on selected plant groups. WFO also includes over 500,000 descriptive data items gathered from digital floras and monographs, and other sources. Descriptive data can be text descriptions, images, geographic distributions, identification keys, phylogenetic trees, threat status, lifeform or habitat. Descriptive data records are all assigned a WFO-ID, if they are new to WFO, by a name matching process with the WFO Taxonomic Backbone. A new tool called Rhakhis (Hyam et al. 2022), developed at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, is used to manage the WFO Taxonomic Backbone data and includes APIs to access the versioned backbone data. This presentation will review the origins and history of WFO-IDs and how they are being used for the World Flora Online.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111210
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 7, e111210, (2023-08-17)
plant taxonomy
plant conservation
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WFO-IDs: Unique identifiers for all known plants managed by the World Flora Online
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2020-01-20T17:18:00Z
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Loizeau, Pierre-André
Price, Michelle J.
Maeder, Anouchka
Smith, Paul
Sharrock, Suzanne
2018-03-09
<p>The <strong>Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva</strong> (CJBG) obtained from the Board of Directors of the <strong>Botanic Gardens Conservation International</strong>, the privilege of hosting the <strong>6<sup>th</sup> Global Botanic Gardens Congress</strong>, in connection with the commemoration of the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the foundation of the Botanical Garden of Geneva, by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, on the 19 November 1817.<br>
The event was held in Geneva from the 25<sup>th</sup> to 30<sup>th</sup> June, 2017, at the International Conference Center of Geneva (CICG) and the CJBG.<br>
Around 500 participants from more than 60 countries participated in the 10 plenary sessions, 200 lectures and 15 excursions.<br>
Having renounced the production of the proceedings of the Congress, we thought that it would be useful to publish the abstracts of conferences, symposiums, round-tables, workshops and posters that were presented at the congress electronically.<br>
Abstracts of the presentations or discussions in the plenary sessions are not included, but they were filmed, except for the discussion led by Paul Smith on Tuesday morning where technical dificulties were encountered. The links to the site hosting these videos are embedded in this electronic document. The links to the videos of opening and closing ceremonies of the congress<br>
are also included.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1194643
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Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Genève, Hors série, 18, XX, 197, (2018-03-09)
Botanic Gardens
Jardins botaniques
Plant Conservation
Conservation des plantes
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève
Education
Botanic Gardens Management
World Flora Online
Global Strategy for Plants Conservation
6th Global Botanic Gardens Congress - 6e Congrès Mondial des Jardins Botaniques - Abstracts - Résumés
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2021-09-11T13:48:21Z
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Klopper, Ronell
Winter, Pieter
Le Roux, Marianne
2021-09-03
<p>Updated country and regional plant checklists for southern Africa have been available for several decades. These form the backbone of foundational and applied biodiversity-related processes, e.g., herbarium specimen curation, conservation assessments, and biodiversity policy and planning activities. A plant taxonomic backbone for South Africa has been maintained electronically since the 1970s; originally in the custom-built National Herbarium, Pretoria Computerised Information System (PRECIS) database; and currently in the Botanical Database of Southern Africa (BODATSA), using Botanical Research & Herbarium Management System (BRAHMS) software. The BODATSA species table contains ca. 129,000 names of fungi, algae, mosses, lycophytes and ferns, conifers, and flowering plants.</p><p>Taxonomic backbone data is continuously expanded, updated, and improved following strict policies and standards in an attempt to keep it up-to-date and current. The South African National Plant Checklist (SANPC) Policy stipulates that a single classification is followed for taxonomic groups at the family level and above. Thus a classification system was chosen for each plant group represented in the backbone. For genera and below, the latest published evidence-based classification is followed. Where there are opposing classifications for a group based on similar data, the SANPC Committee decides which classification is most suitable from a southern African perspective. Researchers can also make an appeal to the Committee not to follow the latest publication, if it is controversial.</p><p>Updating primarily involves keeping track of literature references and the taxon additions, synonymies, and other taxonomic and nomenclatural changes they represent. Attributes affected by such changes are adjusted in the taxon module of BODATSA.</p><p>Currently the taxonomic backbone for indigenous and naturalised mosses, liverworts, hornworts, ferns and lycophytes, conifers, and flowering plants is actively maintained and updated. Fungal names are not curated in BODATSA, as the Mycology Unit of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) of South Africa maintains a taxonomic backbone for fungi. In future, all fungal names will be migrated to a separate instance of BRAHMS, and links to the ARC database will be established to update the fungal backbone. Previously algae were not included in BODATSA or the SANPC, but algal names are now being added to the backbone. Only names of green and red algae will be added initially.</p><p>Maintenance of the names for indigenous taxa in southern Africa was always prioritised in the taxonomic backbone. Recently, the scope was expanded to also focus more on our naturalised flora. For these taxa, expansion involved tagging some existing names as naturalised or invasive and adding others. Thus far this dataset has been managed differently, and we realize that to some extent, this will need to continue going forward since information here are more about presence or absence, and confirmation of naturalised status.</p><p>BODATSA also houses 1.37 million specimen records for more than 2 million specimens housed in the three herbaria of the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI): Compton Herbarium (NBG & SAM), Cape Town; KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH), Durban; and National Herbarium (PRE), Pretoria. Determinations of specimen records are directly linked to names in the taxonomic backbone. Any changes in the backbone thus filter down to the specimen records and should ideally also be reflected in the physical herbarium collections.</p><p>Checklists for South Africa and the Flora of southern African region were initially published in hardcopy, with some later made available in pdf format. An official yearly release of the SANPC (currently containing just under 40,000 names for indigenous and naturalised mosses, liverworts, hornworts, lycophytes and ferns, conifers, and flowering plants occurring in South Africa) is now made available online as a downloadable spreadsheet, together with other checklist-related documents. This part of the backbone is also accessible in the searchable online platform, Plants of southern Africa (POSA). In line with global initiatives to mobilise plant biodiversity data, this platform provides specimen record data as well, and will soon link descriptive data from the e-Flora of South Africa project to the backbone (once the National Biodiversity Information System website upgrade is finalised). The SANPC connects with several international initiatives and is utilised to update the taxonomic backbones of, amongst others, the World Flora Online (WFO) Project (including the WFO Plant List) and the African Plants Database.</p><p>This contribution will briefly outline the history of compiling, updating, and disseminating the taxonomic backbone of southern African plants. It will provide information on current data management processes and procedures. Challenges relating to updating the taxonomic backbone, will be highlighted and discussed.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.73899
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 5, e73899, (2021-09-03)
conifer
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flowering plant
hornwort
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liverwort
lycophyte
moss
names
naturalised
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synonymy
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The South African National Plant Checklist: Maintaining the taxonomic backbone for a megadiverse country
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2024-03-14T15:14:21Z
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Hyam, Roger
Elliott, Alan
Ulate, William
2022-08-23
<p>In 2021, the World Flora Online (WFO) Council agreed that the team at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh would take on the technical role of managing the WFO Taxonomic Backbone (WFO-TB). This presentation outlines the implementation of a system to manage the associated data and explores possible future developments.</p>
<p>The WFO-TB is a global concensus checklist of plants including bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The checklist data consists of two parts: facts concerning the nomenclatural acts that establish the names under the nomenclatural code, and consensus expert opinion on the placement of those names into a single, authoritative taxonomy. WFO-TB is unique in that it is both global in scope and curated by a large team of experts from multiple institutions. There are currently around 280 specialist contributors organised into 37 Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs).</p>
<p>The primary function of the WFO-TB is to provide structure to the hundreds of thousands of descriptions, images and other pieces of Content that make up the WFO's main web portal, but periodic snapshots of the taxonomic data are also made available as public downloads and published as the WFO Plant List. The WFO Plant List is unique in that it remembers each version of WFO-TB that was published and links between them thus providing a stable, citable resource. In addition, data can be released in any format that researchers may find useful including through ChecklistBank and so be potentially incorporated into the Catalogue of Life and GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). All checklist data are released with a Creative Commons (CC) license of CC0 so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law.</p>
<p>Prior to 2022, the WFO-TB was managed as part of the main WFO data resources supporting the WFO Portal by the team at Missouri Botanical Garden. Moving responsibility for hosting the backbone to the team at Edinburgh added significant resources to the project as a whole, but created technical challenges. The first requirement of the new system (called Rhakhis, a Greek form of rachis, the 'backbone' of a leaf or inflorescence) was to demonstrate that it could feed data back to Missouri in a way that could be incorporated into the WFO infrastructure without causing disruption to the Content curation process. This was completed in early 2022, and, by June, the primary copy of the WFO-TB data had been entrusted to Rhakhis. The June 2022 version of the WFO Plant List and the WFO-TB was published using the previous system, switching to publication from Rhakhis in December 2022.</p>
<p>The system architecture of Rhakhis is quite simple. A MySQL database holds all the data and is exposed via a GraphQL API to a web-based user interface written in Javascript using React and Bootstrap. User authentication is handled via a link to ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID). Authorisation for editors is delegated hierarchically down the taxonomic tree. This provides the ability for TENs and the TEN Manager to oversee and manage the live data directly and to delegate authority to colleagues. The TEN Manager has access to a plain HTML bulk loader interface that enables the ingestion of CSV and files in DwC-A (Darwin Core Archive) format supplied by TENs as well as updates from other data sources, such as IPNI (International Plant Names Index) and WCVP (RBG Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants). Rhakhis is designed as a standalone data management tool for taxonomists involved in the project rather than a public website, and is hosted on a WFO server on the Google Cloud.</p>
<p>The WFO Plant List is run on a separate system and designed to be a performant public-facing website. Periodic snapshots of the WFO-TB are imported into a Solr Index that is then exposed via another GraphQL API as well as Semantic Web-compliant HTTPS URIs. A web-based user interface to WFO Plant List is implemented as part of the Craft CMS (Content Management System) that also runs the About pages of the WFO Web Portal, but it would be possible to build other interfaces to this data.</p>
<p>The periodic snapshots of the WFO-TB, which are published through the WFO Plant List, are archived in Zenodo and assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), as well as contributed to Catalogue of Life ChecklistBank. The archive formats currently supported include: Darwin Core Archive and Catalogue of Life Data Package, but other formats will be considered in the future. We are interested in investigating the creation of data papers, e.g., through the Biodiversity Data Journal at Pensoft, to provide additional accreditation for contributors and exposure of their data.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.91432
oai:zenodo.org:7021061
Pensoft Publishers
https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 6, e91432, (2022-08-23)
World Flora Online
taxonomy
botany
taxonomists
Rhakhis
Rhakhis: A workflow for managing the WFO taxonomic backbone
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:7460142
2023-06-25T10:04:13Z
openaire_data
user-wfo
WFO Consortium
2018-07-11
<p>A static copy of the Taxonomic Backbone data is available for download here. These data are provided as Public Domain CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).</p>
<p>Nomenclatural and classification information used for the initial data ingestion into the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone was provided by The Plant List Version 1.1 (September 2013). The data resources used to build The Plant List were contributed by: African Plants Database (Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of the City of Geneva and South African National Biodiversity Institute); GrassBase; The Global Compositae Checklist (International Compositae Alliance); The International Legume Database and Information Service; The International Organisation for Plant Information; International Plant Names Index (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria, and Australian National Herbarium); The iPlants Project (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden, and New York Botanical Garden); Missouri Botanical Garden (Bryophyte Checklist, Checklist of Bolivia, Flora of China Checklist, Checklist of Ecuador, Flora Mesoamericana, Checklist of Panama, Checklist of Peru); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Rosaceae), and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. See www.theplantlist.org/1.1/about/#collaborators for further details.</p>
<p>This initial backbone is now being actively curated by taxonomic specialists of particular plant groups, with Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) given responsibility for updating the classifications of families. The WFO Consortium welcomes participation of the world’s community of botanists to create and join TENs, to help improve the WFO taxonomic backbone and so develop an up-to-date global consensus classification. If you would like to join them or contribute please check the list of current WFO Taxonomic Expert Networks and their contact information in the About page.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7460142
oai:zenodo.org:7460142
eng
Zenodo
https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373
https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388
https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7460141
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Other (Public Domain)
taxonomic backbone
checklist
flora
Plantae
World Flora Online Taxonomic Backbone
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:7460932
2023-06-25T10:04:13Z
openaire_data
user-wfo
WFO Consortium
2019-03-05
<p>A static copy of the Taxonomic Backbone data is available for download here. These data are provided as Public Domain CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).</p>
<p>Nomenclatural and classification information used for the initial data ingestion into the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone was provided by The Plant List Version 1.1 (September 2013). The data resources used to build The Plant List were contributed by: African Plants Database (Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of the City of Geneva and South African National Biodiversity Institute); GrassBase; The Global Compositae Checklist (International Compositae Alliance); The International Legume Database and Information Service; The International Organisation for Plant Information; International Plant Names Index (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria, and Australian National Herbarium); The iPlants Project (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden, and New York Botanical Garden); Missouri Botanical Garden (Bryophyte Checklist, Checklist of Bolivia, Flora of China Checklist, Checklist of Ecuador, Flora Mesoamericana, Checklist of Panama, Checklist of Peru); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Rosaceae), and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. See www.theplantlist.org/1.1/about/#collaborators for further details.</p>
<p>This initial backbone is now being actively curated by taxonomic specialists of particular plant groups, with Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) given responsibility for updating the classifications of families. The WFO Consortium welcomes participation of the world’s community of botanists to create and join TENs, to help improve the WFO taxonomic backbone and so develop an up-to-date global consensus classification. If you would like to join them or contribute please check the list of current WFO Taxonomic Expert Networks and their contact information in the About page.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7460932
oai:zenodo.org:7460932
eng
Zenodo
https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373
https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7460142
https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7460141
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Other (Public Domain)
taxonomic backbone
checklist
flora
Plantae
World Flora Online Taxonomic Backbone
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:7462137
2023-06-25T10:04:14Z
openaire_data
user-wfo
WFO Consortium
2019-05-17
<p>A static copy of the Taxonomic Backbone data is available for download here. These data are provided as Public Domain CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).</p>
<p>Nomenclatural and classification information used for the initial data ingestion into the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone was provided by The Plant List Version 1.1 (September 2013). The data resources used to build The Plant List were contributed by: African Plants Database (Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of the City of Geneva and South African National Biodiversity Institute); GrassBase; The Global Compositae Checklist (International Compositae Alliance); The International Legume Database and Information Service; The International Organisation for Plant Information; International Plant Names Index (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria, and Australian National Herbarium); The iPlants Project (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden, and New York Botanical Garden); Missouri Botanical Garden (Bryophyte Checklist, Checklist of Bolivia, Flora of China Checklist, Checklist of Ecuador, Flora Mesoamericana, Checklist of Panama, Checklist of Peru); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Rosaceae), and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. See www.theplantlist.org/1.1/about/#collaborators for further details.</p>
<p>This initial backbone is now being actively curated by taxonomic specialists of particular plant groups, with Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) given responsibility for updating the classifications of families. The WFO Consortium welcomes participation of the world’s community of botanists to create and join TENs, to help improve the WFO taxonomic backbone and so develop an up-to-date global consensus classification. If you would like to join them or contribute please check the list of current WFO Taxonomic Expert Networks and their contact information in the <a href="http://about.worldfloraonline.org/tens">About</a> page.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7462137
oai:zenodo.org:7462137
eng
Zenodo
https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373
https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7461831
https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7460141
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Other (Public Domain)
taxonomic backbone
checklist
flora
Plantae
World Flora Online Taxonomic Backbone
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:6955206
2022-08-03T13:48:55Z
user-wfo
user-biosyslit
Govaerts, Rafaël
Hartley, Helen
Krieger, Jonathan
Wrankmore, Emma
2022-08-01
<p>IPNI (International Plant Names Index) has been providing nomenclatural data in one form or another for the past 138 years. Over the past decade, great progress has been made in improving the data and making it accessible via a new website. We will be showcasing the new features that have been added to the website, in particular the latest addition, name registration. While obligatory name registration has already been in place for fungi for a decade, we will be highlighting the opportunities it will bring to vascular plant sciences and our ever-increasing pace of data needs. Name registration will lighten the burden of finding newly published names and entering them into the IPNI database, allowing the IPNI curation team to focus on other aspects that have been left behind, like data standardisation. We will also be revisiting some of the longstanding features of IPNI like the LSID (Life Sciences Identifier), which has been used on the IPNI website since its launch in the year 2000, even though new projects still continue to invent their own identifiers. We will look into why this is and how these can improve the efficiency of curating databases that contain plant names, including WFO (World Flora Online).</p><p>For the past 34 years, the IPNI data have been the basis for the taxonomic database, WCVP (World Checklist of Vascular Plants), which records both synonymy and biogeography of vascular plants. Since 2014, both these datasets are curated as part of the same team resulting in greater coordination and data improvements on both sides. WCSP contains some 200,000 names that are not in IPNI and the process has now started to add them to IPNI. IPNI LSIDs have also been added to WCVP, increasing the opportunities of linking to other programmes, like WFO. A widespread utilisation of IPNI LSIDS would offer the opportunity to combine different global plant checklists, allowing users to choose under which taxonomy they want to see data and forego the requirement for one globally agreed taxonomy. However, IPNI and WCVP are still stand-alone legacy database systems, which limit their functionality in a continually changing landscape of user needs.</p><p>Although half of the WCVP data have been reviewed by experts, more integrated access is needed to speed up the review of the other half and continued direct access by these expert groups, including some of the TENs (Taxonomic Expert Networks) established for WFO. We will investigate the possible synergies that may be possible by combining the day-to-day grind of WCVP data management and expert input.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.91060
oai:zenodo.org:6955206
Pensoft Publishers
https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 6, e91060, (2022-08-01)
IPNI
WCVP
nomenclature
taxonomy
plant names
New Developments and Future Vision of the Nomenclatural Database IPNI and the Taxonomic Database WCVP
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:8232394
2023-08-10T14:26:47Z
user-wfo
user-biosyslit
Segovia, Ricardo
Guerrero, Pablo
Squeo, Francisco
Saez, Juan
2023-08-08
<p>Biodiversity portals are emerging as some of the most powerful tools for scientific research and management based on scientific collections. We discuss the importance of web portals in biodiversity research and highlight the commendable progress made by two digitisation projects in Chile: herbariodigital.cl and the Atlas of Chilean Biodiversity. The aim of herbariodigital.cl and ALA-Chile is to take advantage of technological advances to improve the digitisation of biodiversity data. Using cutting-edge methods, herbariodigital.cl has successfully digitised an extensive collection of plant specimens and associated data from Chilean herbaria (>25,000 specimens), promoting a more accessible and inclusive platform for researchers, educators and decision-makers.</p><p>Recognising that the complex nature of biodiversity information requires a careful approach to data storage and organisation to ensure efficient exchange across different platforms, we discuss our experience of using the Darwin Core standard (Darwin Core Task Group 2009), a widely accepted data standard in the field of biodiversity informatics. In turn, we discuss the incongruence that arises from adopting different global taxonomic checklists, such as the GBIF taxonomic backbone (GBIF Secretariat 2022) and World Flora Online (WFO 2023), in addition to a localised community catalogue. Using these different taxonomic frameworks is a significant challenge, as discrepancies and inconsistencies can arise, leading to potential under- or over-estimation of biodiversity indicators. By addressing these challenges, we believe that both herbariodigital.cl and ALA-Chile will prove to be invaluable assets for scientific research, educational initiatives, and environmental monitoring and assessment.</p><p>The comprehensive digitisation of biodiversity information will make it easier for researchers to conduct interdisciplinary studies and formulate evidence-based conservation strategies. In addition, educators will be able to use these web portals to develop interactive teaching materials, fostering a deeper connection between students and the natural world. Stakeholders in both the public and private sectors can also make informed decisions about biodiversity offsetting.</p><p>In conclusion, we highlight the transformative impact of web portals in the field of biodiversity research. The remarkable progress made by herbariodigital.cl and ALA-Chile in digitising Chile's biodiversity information is opening up unprecedented opportunities for scientific research, education and environmental management. By overcoming the challenges of data standardisation and taxonomic harmonisation, these projects are paving the way for a more comprehensive and collaborative approach to understanding and conserving Chile's biodiversity.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110699
oai:zenodo.org:8232394
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https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 7, e110699, (2023-08-08)
herbaria
data standardisation
taxonomy integration
Improving Collection-Based Biodiversity Research in Chile: Digitisation and implementation of web portals
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:3340239
2020-01-20T12:53:48Z
user-wfo
user-biosyslit
Palese, Raoul
Boillat, Cyril
Loizeau, Pierre-André
2019-07-10
<p>Initially populated with information gathered from The Plant List, the WFO's taxonomic backbone will be augmented and modernized by newer taxonomic sources delivered by global plant Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs). At the same time, descriptive data from floras, such as text descriptions, images, geographic distributions, keys, and trait data will be linked to this evolving taxonomic backbone. Semi-automated workflows have to be built to efficiently pull together the work of the TENs and digital floras and monographs into a single source: the WFO portal.</p>
<p>These semi-automated workflows will have to ensure multiple functionalities: format check of the data submitted by the different backbone data providers (TENs or descriptive data providers), integrity and quality checks of the data provided, comparison of these data with the current WFO's taxonomic backbone (matching with the WFO ID's and with the names, check at the level of the family and the taxonomic status attribution, etc.). Applications will also be developed as Decision Making Helper for the TENs: thanks to these applications, TENs will be able to make decisions concerning the resolution of names not present in the current backbone or on the questions of conflicts at the level of the belonging to a family or the taxonomic status for a proposed name.</p>
<p>At the end of these processes, new versions of the taxonomic backbone will regularly be delivered to be integrated into the WFO portal.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.35307
oai:zenodo.org:3340239
Pensoft Publishers
https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3, e35307, (2019-07-10)
World Flora Online (WFO)
Taxonomic backbone
Quality control workflow
World Flora Online (WFO) - Quality control workflow for an evolving taxonomic backbone
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:5527500
2021-09-25T13:48:28Z
user-wfo
user-biosyslit
Le Roux, Marianne
Döring, Markus
Bruneau, Anne
Miller, Joe
Govaerts, Rafaël
Black, Nick
Lewis, Gwilym
Sinou, Carole
2021-09-17
<p> Taxonomic names are critical to the communication of biodiversity—they link data together whether it be distribution data, traits or phylogeny. Large taxonomic groups, such as many plant families, are globally distributed as is the taxonomic expertise of the family. A growing knowledge base requires collaboration to develop an up-to-date checklist as a research foundation. The legume (Fabaceae) community has a strong history of collaboration including the International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS), which curated the names but ILDIS is no longer up to date. In 2020, under the umbrella of the Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG), a group of taxonomists began updating the legume taxonomy as part of a larger collaboration around a legume data portal.</p><p>Currently the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is the most up-to-date reference and was used as the starting point for the project. The workflow begins with over 80 volunteer taxonomic experts updating the checklist in their specialty area. These lists are manually collated, centrally creating a consensus taxonomy with synonyms. Any taxonomic conflicts are adjudicated within the group. The checklist then undergoes a comprehensive nomenclature assessment at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and becomes part of the WCVP. This checklist was submitted to the Catalogue of Life Checklist Bank and is integrated as the preferred legume checklist in the GBIF taxonomic backbone.</p><p>After one round of taxonomic curation, 38% of the legume names in GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), which were previously unmatched to WCVP, are now connected to GBIF names, therefore also improving the occurrence records of those species. The GBIF taxonomic backbone contains names found on herbarium specimens and in the literature, which are not currently part of the legume expert community checklist or WCVP. This list of unresolved names will be forwarded to the legume community for curation, thereby developing a cycle of data improvement. It is anticipated that after a few rounds of expert curation, the WCVP and GBIF taxonomies will converge. At each cycle, a snapshot of GBIF occurrences is taken and the improvement of the occurrences is quantified to measure the value of the expert taxonomic work. The current checklist is also available via Catalogue of Life and soon via the World Flora Online to support research. In this talk, we describe the workflow and impact of the expert curated legume taxonomy.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75377
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https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 5, e75377, (2021-09-17)
A Collective Effort to Update the Legume Checklist
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:7497628
2023-01-01T14:26:26Z
user-wfo
Peyre, Gwendolyn
Montesinos, Daniel
Giraldo, Daniela
Galán de Mera, Antonio
Ruthsatz, Barbara
Luebert, Federico
Ontivero, Marcela
García, Nicolas
Álvarez, Miguel
Meneses, Rosa Isela
Lozano, Pablo
León, Daniela
Weigend, Maximilian
Anthelme, Fabien
Palma, Milagro
Rodriguez, Carolina
2022-12-30
<p>In the era of Big Data, Latin American countries and biomes remain underrepresented. To remediate this issue, promoting repositories for biodiversity data focused on Latin America is a main priority. VegAndes -Dpt the vegetation database for the Latin American highlands (GIVD: SA-00-005), is a novel dataset for georeferenced and standardized information on vascular pants in the region. The database compiles 5,340 vegetation plots sampled above the montane treeline and below the permanent snowline in 11 Latin American countries and spanning over seven decades. VegAndes currently encompasses 5,804 taxon names, corresponding to 3,858 accepted names, as well as 136 syntaxon names. The database is nested within a scientific consortium of Latin American experts on highland vegetation and piloted from the University of the Andes (Colombia). Because the VegAndes data can support multi-scale studies in botany, ecology and biogeography, the database makes an essential contribution to biodiversity research and management perspectives in Latin America.</p> <p> Taxonomic reference: TROPICOS (preferential source, www.tropicos.org/), World Flora Online (secondary source, www.worldfloraonline.org/).</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.95750
oai:zenodo.org:7497628
Pensoft Publishers
https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.95750.figure1
https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.95750.figure2
https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.95750.figure3
https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.95750.figure4
https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.95750.suppl1
https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.95750.suppl2
https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
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Vegetation Classification and Survey, 3, 287-296, (2022-12-30)
database
flora
highland
Mesoamerica
phytosociology
plot data
South America
vegetation
VegAndes: the vegetation database for the Latin American highlands
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:3459997
2024-03-14T15:12:57Z
user-wfo
user-biosyslit
Ranwashe, Fhatani
Le Roux, Marianne
2019-09-17
<p>The e-Flora of South Africa project was initiated in 2013 by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in support of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC, 2011-2020). South Africa's flora consists of ca. 21,000 taxa of which more than half are endemic. South Africa will contribute a national Flora towards Target 1 of the GSPC ("To create an online flora of all known plants by 2020"). South Africa's contribution is ca. 6% of the world's flora of which ca. 3% are endemic and therefore unique. South Africa's electronic Flora is comprised of previously published descriptions.</p>
<p>South Africa's e-Flora data forms part of the Botanical Dataset of Southern Africa (BODATSA) that is currently managed through the Botanical Research And Herbarium Management System (BRAHMS). To date, South Africa's e-Flora data (http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=flora_descriptions) represents 19,539 indigenous taxa, 79,139 descriptions of distribution, morphological, habitat and diagnostic data, and 27,799 bibliographic records. The e-Flora data was recently published online using the Integrated Publishing Toolkit and henceforth harvested by the World Flora Online (WFO) into the portal.</p>
<p>A series of challenges were encountered while manipulating descriptive data from BRAHMS to be ingested by the WFO portal; from taxonomic issues to data quality issues not excluding compliance to data standards.</p>
<p>To contribute to the WFO portal, the taxa in BODATSA has to match with the taxa in the WFO taxonomic backbone. Once there is a match, a unique WFO taxon identifier is assigned to the taxa in BODATSA. This process presented various challenges because the WFO taxonomic backbone and the taxonomic classification system that is used by South Africa (South African National Plant Checklist) does not fully correlate. The schema used to store taxonomic data also does not agree between BRAHMS and WFO and had to be addressed.</p>
<p>To enable consistency for future, a detailed guideline document was created providing all the steps and actions that should be taken when publishing an e-Flora, managed in BRAHMS, to the WFO portal. The presentation will focus on matching taxonomic classifications between BRAHMS and WFO; dealing with character encoding issues and manipulating data to meet Darwin Core standards.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.35191
oai:zenodo.org:3459997
Pensoft Publishers
https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit
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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3, e35191, (2019-09-17)
Flora; Darwin Core; e-Flora; Biodiversity Informatics; Data standards; World Flora Online; WFO
The e-Flora of South Africa – restructuring data to comply with Darwin Core standards for inclusion into the World Flora Online
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:8266719
2023-08-20T14:26:48Z
user-wfo
user-biosyslit
Hyam, Roger
Elliott, Alan
2023-08-18
<p>All scientists will face the challenge of explaining what they do to a friend or relative. Fortunately it is easy for us to explain our work. We are building a list of all known plants. Unfortunately this elicits the awkward question: Hasn't that been done already? Everyone knows that Linnaeus started the naming convention in the 18th century. Surely we would have created a list of species in the intervening 270 years. Alas, there is no single, global species list. In 2022, when the team at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) took on the coordination of the World Flora Online (WFO) Plant List, we considered what we could do differently to save our successors from this awkward dinner party question.</p><p>The WFO Plant List's primary purpose is as a structure for the WFO information portal. The portal contains a large amount of information. The list is a simple database of names and their taxonomic statuses. It currently contains 1.52 million names and 440,000 accepted taxa. Because the list has a global scope and includes all vascular plants and bryophytes, it has great potential to be of use outside the WFO portal. Functions might include a:</p><ul>common vocabulary for ecological monitoring networks;drop down list in a garden management system;destination for taxonomic output beyond a monographic paper;bridge from historical, observational studies to contemporary, molecular, phylogenetic research.</ul><p>In short, the WFO Plant List can be a single, shared lookup table for plant taxa.</p><p>There are four well known elements of project management: resources, timescale, quality and scope. We have limited control over the first three of these elements. For resources, our institutes have committed a part of our salaried time to facilitate the project but the vast amount of the work has to be done through collaboration with others. We can only inspire people to contribute and this must be done through principles of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data discussed below. There is no natural timescale for our work; we have therefore established a somewhat artificial drum beat of twice-yearly data releases. This enables us to prioritise smaller batches of work. In a list like this, quality is synonymous with accuracy and non-negotiable. If we have an error in our list, it must be corrected. The only element we have full control over is scope. We can choose what is included and what is not. We do this through the design of our data model. The simpler we can make the model, the more complete we can make the list and the easier it will be to improve quality.</p><p>We only include names that appear effectively/validly published under the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (ICNAFP). This is an explicit set of rules we can use to enforce data integrity. Unlike the Catalogue of Life, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF<u>)</u> or the Global Names Architecture (GNA), we do not have to model names governed by other nomenclatural codes and can focus our resources. From the start, we have separated nomenclature from taxonomy. This gives us a clear set of nomenclatural facts supported by appropriate references that will not change over time, alongside taxonomic opinion that is linked to relevant supporting literature. We only support a single consensus taxonomy but by keeping snapshots of the taxonomy every six months, we allow changes in the science to be tracked through time. The separation of nomenclature from taxonomy within our identifier schema allows third parties to maintain their own classifications whilst mapping to our classification through taxonomically neutral name identifiers.</p><p>If we had been working a decade or more ago, we would have created tables for ancillary data such as literature, specimens and people. Today we can take advantage of the many data sources available via web links and only store data on nomenclatural acts and taxonomic placement. All other data is represented by a generic referencing mechanism. A reference consists of a URL (including digital object identifiers (DOIs) in URL form) and a citation string. This approach dramatically increases our ability to focus on taxonomic coverage and leaves specialist systems such as International Plant Names Index (IPNI), Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and WikiData to handle other classes of data.</p><p>More important than the way we model the data is how it is produced and consumed by others. As a node in a graph of linked biodiversity information, our success is measured by the number of links we have to other nodes and people.</p><p>The data is being produced and maintained by a growing community organised into Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs). There are about 300 individual scientists in 44 approved TENs. These TENs can contribute to the live dataset via submission of bulk data or by using a dedicated editing platform called Rhakhis. Care is taken to give attribution for contributions at the finest level of granularity possible using Open Researcher Contributor Identifiers (ORCID). We strive to have the data available in bulk and at the level of each name under FAIR principles. All data is released under a Creative Commons CC0 licence. It is made available through the WFO portal, a dedicated API, ChecklistBank and Zenodo on a six-monthly release cycle. The dataset has a citable DOI as well as each version having its own DOI. All names have a stable URI and each version of each taxon has a stable URI. There is a name-to-ID matching service available through the API and as a web interface, and there are two R packages (WorldFlora and wfor) to facilitate analysis workflows.</p>
https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111338
oai:zenodo.org:8266719
Pensoft Publishers
https://zenodo.org/communities/wfo
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taxonomy
nomenclature
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name matching
botanical code
ICBN
ICNAFP
checklist
World Flora Online
A strategy for building the WFO plant list
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<p>Research projects in ecology or biodiversity either start with an area of study or a target species list. Working with these species lists or taxonomic lists is not as straightforward as it seems. The taxonomic names that are considered to be "standard," are surprisingly dynamic. Over time, the names keep changing with ongoing research and advancements in taxonomy. Additionally, they undergo all sorts of reorganization, such as one species being split into multiple species and/or subspecies, the grouping of multiple species into a single species, and the reclassification of species from one genus to another. Compiling a consistent target species list can be very time consuming and tricky. However it is the initial step in most research projects and needs to be completed in order to continue the research.</p><p>Advancements in biodiversity informatics are helping simplify and automate some of these tasks. There are several web services that provide taxonomic data with either a taxonomic or a geographic focus. An increasing number of experts are opening access to their carefully curated taxonomic lists. Even with the help of these services, a lot of time needs to be spent to create a working list of names that can be linked to data such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) mediated occurrence data. </p><p>The package "<em>taxotools"</em> (Barve 2021) provides basic taxonomic list processing functions within the R programming environment (R Core Team 2021). Even though it is a work in progress, the functions available so far are applicable to diverse projects. The tools available can be categorized into the following broad areas:</p><ul><p>Name manipulation: A set of helper functions to check scientific names with global name resolution services like Global Names Architecture (GNA) & GBIF Name Parser, and to construct and deconstruct scientific names to and from components like genus, species and subspecific units.</p><p>Name matching: Matches names either with global name services or with user-created master taxonomy lists using fuzzy matching, testing combinations of genus level synonyms, subspecies elevation to species, trying to match with higher level taxonomic entities like genus and family, and employing a user-defined lookup table to manually resolve names.</p><p>List processing: Updates list fields such as unique identifiers (id), higher taxonomy and taxonomic ranks.</p><p>List matching: Compares user generated lists with each other and finds differences in the two lists, then prepares the lists for merging together to form a masterlist.</p><p>Format conversion: Converts taxolist to and from formats like HTML and Darwin Core (Wieczorek et al. 2021), which is useful in data exchange or checking the lists manually.</p><p>Name harvesting functions: Acquires additional names from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) and Wikipedia (taxonomy infobox).</p></ul><p>Detailed function listings under each category are listed in Table 1.</p><p>This package has been effectively used in several biodiversity studies and projects like Map of Life, ButterflyNet, Terrestrial Parasite Tracker etc. It has been successfully tested on a masterlist constructed with ~1M names from World Flora Online and performs well.</p><p>The package is available on The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) [<u>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=taxotools</u>] and the developmental release is on GitHub [<u>https://github.com/vijaybarve/taxotools</u>].</p>
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Taxonomy Compilation & Curation Within R
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2020-01-20T15:36:53Z
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von Mering, Sabine
Akhani, Hossein
Arias, Salvador
Berendsohn, Walter G.
Borsch, Thomas
Castañeda-Noa, Idelfonso
de Vos, Jurriaan
Dillenberger, Markus
Eggli, Urs
Fleischmann, Andreas
Flores-Olvera, Maria Hilda
Hernández-Ledesma, Patricia
Kadereit, Gudrun
Klak, Cornelia
Korotkova, Nadja
Malekmohammadi, Maryam
Moore, Abigail
Nyffeler, Reto
Ocampo, Gilberto
Ortiz Díaz, Juan Javier
Oxelman, Bengt
Rabeler, Richard
Schlumpberger, Boris
Schuster, Tanja
Timaná, Martín
Uotila, Pertti
Zuloaga, Fernando
2019-06-13
<p>The ongoing paradigm shift in taxonomy from individual contributions to a truly collaborative and forward-looking endeavour results in a number of challenges related to distributed data management. Examination of physical specimens remains a key task, but searching for specimen data, literature, and name information is now mostly done online. In the past, these research steps involved many physical visits to collections and libraries. Although these infrastructures were and are still freely accessible and supportive for research carried out by individuals, the amount of characters, specimens, and the complexity of current analytical approaches limit what can be achieved by individual workers. Monographing is challenged because:</p>
larger genera remain unstudied and become fragmented in regional treatments;
long-term availability of detailed (unpublished) primary research data is often not addressed;
cross-disciplinary interoperability and open data principles are needed; and
highly specialised techniques used in phylogenetic and genomic analyses require teamwork by specialists.
<p>The process towards generating truly community-based integrative dynamic taxonomic treatments is ongoing. In botany, specialist communities and networks have formed for certain plant groups, for example in the families Solanaceae, Brassicaceae, Fabaceae, Poaceae, Melastomataceae-Miconieae, Asteraceae-Cichorieae, and in the order Caryophyllales. Their common aim is to create sustainable information systems according to the FAIR principles, making the information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. At the same time, the information system is meant to support and document ongoing taxonomic research as an iterative process with tracking of changes, and backlinks to original data sources. This represents a big step forward with respect to the efficiency of the entire field of taxonomy.</p>
<p>The Global Caryophyllales Initiative aims at creating a global synthesis of species diversity in this group (Borsch et al. 2015) encompassing about 12,500 species in more than 30 families or about 6% of flowering plants (Fig. 1). Caryophyllales include ecologically diverse, economically important, invasive, and threatened species. The Caryophyllales Network was initiated in 2011 and unites specialists from across the world (to date, 150 scientists from 37 countries). The network is recognized by the World Flora Online (WFO) Council as its Taxonomic Expert Network for Caryophyllales.</p>
<p>Advances by the network are presented in the open-access Caryophyllales Portal (http://caryophyllales.org/), aiming to provide up-to-date phylogenetic and taxonomic information. The systematic treatment is powered by the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy (https://cybertaxonomy.eu/), with the generic checklist (http://caryophyllales.org/Checklist) and some family treatments already publicly available (e.g. Cactaceae). The checklist is regularly updated in consultation with family editors. A species-level taxonomic backbone incorporating all names and pertinent nomenclatural acts and evaluations is being compiled. A compilation of the Nepenthaceae (Berendsohn et al. 2018) served as a case study for the accommodation of descriptive and other factual data, and for demonstrating the feasibility of the workflow contributing to the WFO initiative. The taxonomic treatment of <em>Iresine</em> (Borsch et al. 2018) is another example. These studies are fundamental in establishing a general workflow for collaborative online monographs.</p>
<p>Several challenges remain, <em>inter alia</em> the genomics perspective in biodiversity informatics, proper attribution and unique identification of taxonomic concepts, review and impact assessment of individual contributions, possibilities to simultaneously display contrasting taxonomical concepts and classifications, and engaging both the wider taxonomic community and the public.</p>
<p>The ongoing implementation shows that a dynamic online monograph requires rethinking of editorial workflows. Based on experiences with the Caryophyllales network, the taxonomic and biodiversity informatics communities are ready to meet this challenge.</p>
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The Global Caryophyllales Initiative: Towards an updated taxonomic backbone and a dynamic monograph of a major plant group
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2020-01-20T14:08:49Z
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Hobern, Donald
Banki, Olaf
Döring, Markus
Remsen, David
2019-06-21
<p>Biological sciences have for more than 250 years depended on the nomenclatural system established by Carl Linnaeus to assign names to the world's species. These names can be considered to be a pre-digital effort to associate species, as key biological concepts, with globally unique identifiers. All sciences and all other human endeavours that relate to biological organisms have depended on this system to enable international communication and connect essential knowledge for taxonomy, conservation, agriculture, pest and disease management, trade and many other fields.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the scale and complexity both of life on earth and of the continued efforts by taxonomists to describe the millions of species on earth have prevented subsequent Linnaeus' followers from attempting to deliver a comprehensive catalogue of named species. Instead, many millions of names have been published throughout a vast and disconnected multilingual literature. Experts studying particular groups of organisms are likely to be familiar with the history of naming for their species of interest, but the dream of a fully interconnected naming system has remained elusive.</p>
<p>In the last 25 years, major efforts have sought to address this need by assisting experts in collating the scattered information on scientific names and organising it in a consistent way. Most significantly, Species 2000, working in partnership with the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), has led development of the Catalogue of Life (CoL). CoL is the most comprehensive and authoritative global index of species currently available. It consists of a single integrated species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy. The Catalogue holds essential information on the names, relationships and distributions of over 1.8 million species. This figure continues to rise as information is compiled from diverse sources around the world. However, CoL is still far from complete, with several important megadiverse groups mostly lacking. Additionally, some segments of the Catalogue require major work to resolve synonymy or to incorporate recent names. As a result, there is still no complete checklist of the world's species.</p>
<p>Recognising the important role and efforts of many others that are aligned with this vision, including the existing nomenclatural databases (IPNI, Index Fungorum, ZooBank, etc.), other significant international checklist initiatives (especially WoRMS and World Flora Online) and many regional and national checklist databases (some with official status within national regulations), it is clear that a more collaborative model is needed to accelerate completion of this global catalogue. The benefits from achieving this will be significant, reducing wasted efforts in repeated databasing of the same core information on names and species, maximising the benefits from contributions of taxonomists and others to improve coverage and completeness, offering confidence to researchers and to data infrastructures in interpretation of all scientific names, facilitating community discussion and assessment of divergent perspectives on species classification, and providing a framework for documentation and communication of information on biogrography, species traits and interactions, conservation status, etc. In particular, the global information resource and national versions should be complementary and all products should benefit equally from new additions and corrections. Likewise relevant experts should be empowered to contribute freely to maintaining and improving this critical biodiversity data infrastructure. </p>
<p>Achieving these goals will require innovative tools and community models that enable the international taxonomic community to contribute their expertise efficiently and ensure that information entered is never lost, only improved. This session is to refine this vision and contribute to planning for a comprehensive collaborative taxonomic catalogue.</p>
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<p>A static copy of the Taxonomic Backbone data is available for download here. These data are provided as Public Domain CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).</p>
<p>Nomenclatural and classification information used for the initial data ingestion into the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone was provided by The Plant List Version 1.1 (September 2013). The data resources used to build The Plant List were contributed by: African Plants Database (Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of the City of Geneva and South African National Biodiversity Institute); GrassBase; The Global Compositae Checklist (International Compositae Alliance); The International Legume Database and Information Service; The International Organisation for Plant Information; International Plant Names Index (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria, and Australian National Herbarium); The iPlants Project (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden, and New York Botanical Garden); Missouri Botanical Garden (Bryophyte Checklist, Checklist of Bolivia, Flora of China Checklist, Checklist of Ecuador, Flora Mesoamericana, Checklist of Panama, Checklist of Peru); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Rosaceae), and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. See www.theplantlist.org/1.1/about/#collaborators for further details.</p>
<p>This initial backbone is now being actively curated by taxonomic specialists of particular plant groups, with Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) given responsibility for updating the classifications of families. The WFO Consortium welcomes participation of the world’s community of botanists to create and join TENs, to help improve the WFO taxonomic backbone and so develop an up-to-date global consensus classification. If you would like to join them or contribute please check the list of current WFO Taxonomic Expert Networks and their contact information in the <a href="http://about.worldfloraonline.org/tens">About</a> page.</p>
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Gonzáles, Paúl
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Jordão, Lucas sá barreto
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World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
The Caryophyllales Taxonomic Expert Network -The Caryophyllales Network
The Bryophyte Taxonomic Expert Network
The Annonaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Haloragaceae and related Families Taxonomic Expert Network
The Apocynaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Aquifoliaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Conifer Taxonomic Expert Network
The Arecaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Begoniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Boraginaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Bruniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cabombaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dipsacales Taxonomic Expert Network
The Commelinales Taxonomic Expert Network
The Asteraceaae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cycad Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cyperaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dioscoreaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dipterocarpaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Ericaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Fagaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Gesneriaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Hypericum Taxonomic Expert Network
The Irvingiaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Fabaceae Taxonomic Expert Network - Legume Taxonomy Working Group
The Lowiaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Mayacaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Melastomataceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Musaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Ochnaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Papaveraceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Picramniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Poaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Putranjivaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Sapindaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Sapotaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Endemic Plant Families of Madagascar Taxonomic Expert Network
The Solanaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Styracaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Zingiberaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Asphodelaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The World Flora Online Consortium
Elliott, Alan
Hyam, Roger
Ulate, William
2023-06-21
<p><strong>There was an error in the generation of the Catalogue of Life Data Package for this version of the data release. This version of the repository was therefore replaced with a new version on 25th June 2023. Please use https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8079052 instead.</strong></p>
<p>A global consensus classification of vascular plants and bryophytes used as the taxonomic backbone for the World Flora Online (WFO) portal (<a href="http://www.worldfloraonline.org/">http://www.worldfloraonline.org</a>) and the WFO Plant List (<a href="https://wfoplantlist.org">https://wfoplantlist.org</a>).</p>
<p>Initiated in 2012, WFO has developed to represent a comprehensive knowledge base on the world’s plant species. Comprising over 50 botanical institutions and organisations worldwide, the WFO Consortium recognizes the need for the synthesis of botanical knowledge that has been generated through more than 260 years of botanical exploration, taxonomic and, more recently, phylogenetic research throughout the world. Endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity, WFO supports the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (<a href="https://www.plants2020.net">https://www.plants2020.net</a>) and the <a href="https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/e6d3/cd1d/daf663719a03902a9b116c34/cop-15-l-25-en.pdf">Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework</a>.</p>
<p>WFO has become a first-ever global source of information on the world’s plant diversity supported by the international taxonomic community. At the heart of the WFO is a checklist which aims to provide the most up to date source of scientific plant names and their synonyms compiled. The WFO checklist is curated, moderated and updated by an expert and specialist-based global community (Taxonomic Expert Networks ,TENs) covering a taxonomic group.</p>
<p>The initial data ingestion into the WFO checklist was undertaken in 2015 using data from The Plant List Version 1.1 (TPL, September 2013). The list of datasets contributing to TPL is given here: <a href="https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors">https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors</a>.</p>
<p>New taxonomic names and data updates are regularly incorporated into WFO from nomenclators: International Plant Name Index (IPNI, <a href="https://www.ipni.org/">https://www.ipni.org</a>) for vascular plants, and Tropicos (<a href="https://www.tropicos.org/">https://www.tropicos.org</a>) for bryophytes.</p>
<p>Classification and nomenclatural updates have been incorporated from WFO TENs, and classification data for taxonomic groups not yet covered by a TEN have been incorporated from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP, <a href=" https://wcvp.science.kew.org">https://wcvp.science.kew.org</a>), facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</p>
<p>New versions of this global consensus classification are released every six months, in June and December. Detail of the changes since December 2022, incorporated this June 2023 release, are given here: <a href="https://about.worldfloraonline.org/june-2023-release">https://about.worldfloraonline.org/june-2023-release</a>.</p>
<p>This data repository includes the following files:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>wfo_plantlist_2023-06.zip</strong> The Catalogue of Life Data Package of the WFO Plant List. This is the most expressive standards based form of the list.</li>
<li><strong>plant_list_2023-06.json.zip</strong> JSON formatted version of the WFO Plant List. This has been designed for direct import into a schemaless instance of a SOLR index and is used to drive the WFO Plant List API (<a href="https://list.worldfloraonline.org">https://list.worldfloraonline.org</a>) which in turn drives the WFO Plant List in the portal. This is recommended if you want a local, read only version of the list rather than use the API.</li>
<li><strong>plant_list_2023-06.sql.gz</strong> This is the complete production database (minus logging data and API keys) as a MySQL backup file. It can be restored directly to a MySQL 5.7 or later instance if you require the list in SQL format.</li>
<li><strong>ipni_to_wfo.csv.gz</strong> A file mapping all the IPNI IDs we track to their associated WFO IDs.</li>
<li><strong>families_dwc.tar.gz</strong> Individual Darwin Core Archive files for each of 718 recognized families. If you want a single family in DwC but can't load the whole list download and expand this file. Family and genus files are also available for download through the portal.</li>
<li><strong>_DwC_backbone_R.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing non deprecated names and taxa for use in the existing R package.</li>
<li><strong>_uber.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing all names and taxa even those that are deprecated along with some extra columns<br>
</li>
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New versions of the WFO Plant List are released each solstice, in June and December.
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<p>A static copy of the Taxonomic Backbone data is available for download here. These data are provided as Public Domain CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).</p>
<p>Nomenclatural and classification information used for the initial data ingestion into the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone was provided by The Plant List Version 1.1 (September 2013). The data resources used to build The Plant List were contributed by: African Plants Database (Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of the City of Geneva and South African National Biodiversity Institute); GrassBase; The Global Compositae Checklist (International Compositae Alliance); The International Legume Database and Information Service; The International Organisation for Plant Information; International Plant Names Index (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria, and Australian National Herbarium); The iPlants Project (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden, and New York Botanical Garden); Missouri Botanical Garden (Bryophyte Checklist, Checklist of Bolivia, Flora of China Checklist, Checklist of Ecuador, Flora Mesoamericana, Checklist of Panama, Checklist of Peru); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Rosaceae), and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. See www.theplantlist.org/1.1/about/#collaborators for further details.</p>
<p>This initial backbone is now being actively curated by taxonomic specialists of particular plant groups, with Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs) given responsibility for updating the classifications of families. The WFO Consortium welcomes participation of the world’s community of botanists to create and join TENs, to help improve the WFO taxonomic backbone and so develop an up-to-date global consensus classification. If you would like to join them or contribute please check the list of current WFO Taxonomic Expert Networks and their contact information in the About page.</p>
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Bonifacino, Mauricio
Borges, Leonardo
Brinda, John c.
Bruneau, Anne
Carvalho, Catarina silva de
Chiarini, Franco
Couvreur, Thomas
Crowley, Dan
Duan, Lei
Durán, Juan david tovar
Elliott, Alan
Escallón, Eugenio valderrama
Estrella, Manuel de la
Falcão, Marcus
Fritsch, Peter
Gagnon, Edeline
Galasso, Gabriele
Galdo, Gianpietro giusso del
Giacomin, Leandro
Girmansyah, Deden
Gissi, Danilo soares
Gonzáles, Paúl
Gouvêa, Yuri
Govaerts, Rafaël herman anna
Gregório, Bernarda
Haegi, Laurence
Haevermans, Thomas
Harris, David j.
Hilario, Robin fernandez
Hopkins, Helen fortune
Hua-feng,
Hughes, Mark
J.g., Rando,
Jara-muñoz, Orlando adolfo
Javadi, Firouzeh
Jiménez-mejías, Pedro
Jordão, Lucas sá barreto
Klitgaard, Bente
Klopper, R.r.
Knapp, Sandra
Korotkova, Nadja
Larridon, Isabel
Lavandero, Nicolás
Leong-skornickova, Jana
Lewis, Gwilym
Lima, Alexandre gibau de
Martine, Chris
Maslin, Bruce
Miller, Joseph t.
Moeller, Michael
Moonlight, Peter
Moreira-munoz, Andres
Murphy, Daniel
Mustaqim, Wendy a.
Nelson, Charles
Newman, Mark
Orejuela, Andres
Pandey, Arun
Pellegrini, Marco o. o.
Pennington, Toby
Pinto, Rafael
Pirie, Michael d.
Poulsen, Axel dalberg
Quintanar, Alejandro
Rakotonirina, Nivohenintsoa
Ramos, Gustavo
Rodrigues, Rodrigo schütz
Roux, Margaretha marianne le
Sampaio, Valéria da silva
Santilli, Ludovica
Silva, Rafael costa
Simon, Marcelo
Smith, Stacey
Sokoloff, Dmitry
Sotuyo, Solange
Stirton, Charles
Straub, Shannon
Strijk, Joeri sergej
Särkinen, Tiina
Tebbitt, Mark
Tepe, Eric
Thomas, Daniel caspar
Thulin, Mats
Vorontsova, Maria (bat) s.
Wilding, Nicholas
Wilson, Hannah
Zamora-tavares, Pilar
Zhang, Rong
World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
The Caryophyllales Taxonomic Expert Network -The Caryophyllales Network
The Bryophyte Taxonomic Expert Network
The Annonaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Haloragaceae and related Families Taxonomic Expert Network
The Apocynaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Aquifoliaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Conifer Taxonomic Expert Network
The Arecaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Begoniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Boraginaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Bruniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cabombaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dipsacales Taxonomic Expert Network
The Commelinales Taxonomic Expert Network
The Asteraceaae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cycad Taxonomic Expert Network
The Cyperaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dioscoreaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Dipterocarpaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Ericaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Fagaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Gesneriaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Hypericum Taxonomic Expert Network
The Irvingiaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Fabaceae Taxonomic Expert Network - Legume Taxonomy Working Group
The Lowiaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Mayacaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Melastomataceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Musaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Ochnaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Papaveraceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Picramniaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Poaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Putranjivaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Sapindaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Sapotaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Endemic Plant Families of Madagascar Taxonomic Expert Network
The Solanaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Styracaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Zingiberaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The Asphodelaceae Taxonomic Expert Network
The World Flora Online Consortium
Elliott, Alan
Hyam, Roger
Ulate, William
2023-06-25
<p>A global consensus classification of vascular plants and bryophytes used as the taxonomic backbone for the World Flora Online (WFO) portal (<a href="http://www.worldfloraonline.org/">http://www.worldfloraonline.org</a>) and the WFO Plant List (<a href="https://wfoplantlist.org">https://wfoplantlist.org</a>).</p>
<p>Initiated in 2012, WFO has developed to represent a comprehensive knowledge base on the world’s plant species. Comprising over 50 botanical institutions and organisations worldwide, the WFO Consortium recognizes the need for the synthesis of botanical knowledge that has been generated through more than 260 years of botanical exploration, taxonomic and, more recently, phylogenetic research throughout the world. Endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity, WFO supports the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (<a href="https://www.plants2020.net">https://www.plants2020.net</a>) and the <a href="https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/e6d3/cd1d/daf663719a03902a9b116c34/cop-15-l-25-en.pdf">Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework</a>.</p>
<p>WFO has become a first-ever global source of information on the world’s plant diversity supported by the international taxonomic community. At the heart of the WFO is a checklist which aims to provide the most up to date source of scientific plant names and their synonyms compiled. The WFO checklist is curated, moderated and updated by an expert and specialist-based global community (Taxonomic Expert Networks ,TENs) covering a taxonomic group.</p>
<p>The initial data ingestion into the WFO checklist was undertaken in 2015 using data from The Plant List Version 1.1 (TPL, September 2013). The list of datasets contributing to TPL is given here: <a href="https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors">https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors</a>.</p>
<p>New taxonomic names and data updates are regularly incorporated into WFO from nomenclators: International Plant Name Index (IPNI, <a href="https://www.ipni.org/">https://www.ipni.org</a>) for vascular plants, and Tropicos (<a href="https://www.tropicos.org/">https://www.tropicos.org</a>) for bryophytes.</p>
<p>Classification and nomenclatural updates have been incorporated from WFO TENs, and classification data for taxonomic groups not yet covered by a TEN have been incorporated from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP, <a href=" https://wcvp.science.kew.org">https://wcvp.science.kew.org</a>), facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</p>
<p>New versions of this global consensus classification are released every six months, in June and December. Detail of the changes since December 2022, incorporated this June 2023 release, are given here: <a href="https://about.worldfloraonline.org/june-2023-release">https://about.worldfloraonline.org/june-2023-release</a>.</p>
<p>This data repository includes the following files:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>wfo_plantlist_2023-06.zip</strong> The Catalogue of Life Data Package of the WFO Plant List. This is the most expressive standards based form of the list.</li>
<li><strong>plant_list_2023-06.json.zip</strong> JSON formatted version of the WFO Plant List. This has been designed for direct import into a schemaless instance of a SOLR index and is used to drive the WFO Plant List API (<a href="https://list.worldfloraonline.org">https://list.worldfloraonline.org</a>) which in turn drives the WFO Plant List in the portal. This is recommended if you want a local, read only version of the list rather than use the API.</li>
<li><strong>plant_list_2023-06.sql.gz</strong> This is the complete production database (minus logging data and API keys) as a MySQL backup file. It can be restored directly to a MySQL 5.7 or later instance if you require the list in SQL format.</li>
<li><strong>ipni_to_wfo.csv.gz</strong> A file mapping all the IPNI IDs we track to their associated WFO IDs.</li>
<li><strong>families_dwc.tar.gz</strong> Individual Darwin Core Archive files for each of 718 recognized families. If you want a single family in DwC but can't load the whole list download and expand this file. Family and genus files are also available for download through the portal.</li>
<li><strong>_DwC_backbone_R.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing non deprecated names and taxa for use in the existing R package.</li>
<li><strong>_uber.zip</strong> A single Darwin Core Archive file containing all names and taxa even those that are deprecated along with some extra columns<br>
</li>
</ul>
New versions of the WFO Plant List are released each solstice, in June and December.
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