Mediterranean lichens on‐line

Summary Grube, M. & Nimis, P. L.: Mediterranean lichens on‐line. – Taxon 46: 487‐493. 1997. – ISSN 0040‐0262. In the frame of a project of the OPTIMA Commission for Lichens, a workspace has been created on the Internet for the compilation of a checklist of Mediterranean lichens. The World Wide Web now offers quick access to the lichen checklists of several countries, and facilitates the coordination of future work through a common format of data presentation. As a first step, the checklists were placed on the Web as plain text files, except for the lichen data from Slovenia, which are organized in a relational database. Placing new information on the Web is equivalent to a kind of publication, which raises some issues which need being discussed.