Open AccessEPIDENDRA, the taxonomic databases by Jardín Botánico Lankester
Author(s) -
Franco Pupulin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
lankesteriana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2215-2067
pISSN - 1409-3871
DOI - 10.15517/lank.v7i1-2.19408
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , database , orchidaceae , world wide web , information retrieval , computer science , geography , biology , ecology , archaeology
t may seem somehow out of line to present a new system of botanical databases in the context of a meeting on orchid conservation, for two main rea- sons. Even though botanists have been rather slow in upgrading to the use of electronic databases (with some early controversy regarding the desirability of the application of electronic data processing methods to taxonomic problems as a whole, see i.e. Shetler 1974), the dissemination of plant information via the web has grown steadily in recent years.