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EPGRIS - Establishment of an European Plant
Genetic Resources Information Infra-Structure Half
-term Coordination Meeting, 14-/15 June, Oeiras
Taxonomy - Experiances with BIGTAX Sabine
Roscher Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation
und -information (ZADI) Informationszentrum
Biologische Vielfalt (IBV)
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BIG - Federal Information System on PGR
User
BIGTAX
Geography
Descriptors
Plant Name
BIG
Cross-Data Base Search

Ex situ
In situ
Sources of PGR in Germany
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BIGTAX
BIGTAX - Repository of scientific and
common names of plants
Link (directly using IDs)
Distributed data bases with taxon referred data
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PGR Search Catalogue - fundamental Considerations
organism-referred data (specimens, accession)
are searched for in data bases data must be
assigned to a unique class of reference objects
(taxon) scientific species name is used for
this
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Relationships between taxonomic concepts
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• GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  (21 voting members)
• Executive Secretary James L. Edwards
  (Copenhagen)
• Chair Christoph Häuser (Stuttgart)
• Vice-Chair Wouter Los (Amsterdam)
• Sub-Committee Data Access Database
  Interoperability (David A. Vieglas, Kansas)
• Associate Participants inter alia
• Species 2000 (Frank Bisby, Reading)
• ETI - The Expert Center for Taxonomic
  Identification (Peter Schalk, Amsterdam)
• ITIS - The Integrated Taxonomic Information
  System (Michael Ruggiero, Washington)
• TDWG - Taxonomic Databases Working Group (Stanley
  Blum, San Francisco)
• CABI - Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
  International (CABI)
• BIOSIS (Linda Sacks, Philadelphia)
• ...
• ENBI European Network for Biodiversity
  Information (Wouter Los, Amsterdam)
• European national nodes of the Global
  Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

International Initiatives (Taxonomy and Data
Access)
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GBIF - Content
Source www.gbif.org
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BIG - Federal Information System on PGR
User
BIGTAX
Geography
Descriptors
Plant Name
BIG
Cross-Data Base Search

Ex situ
In situ
Sources of PGR in Germany
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BIGTAX - Data Flow and ER-diagramm
DB-source
a database contains n taxa
scientific name
a scientific name may belong to n taxa
taxon
a taxon may have n synonyms
a taxon may have n common names
common name
synonymy
a synonym name may have n accepted names
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BIGTAX shows accepted names, their synonyms and
source of information
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PGRDEU - Corrections of names
Vorschläge f. nomenklatorisch korrekte
Schreibweise der wissenschaftlichen Pflanzennamen
Beispiele
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