Biodiversity Databases

Techniques, Politics, and Applications

Gordon B. Curry, Chris J. Humphries

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CRC Press
25 April 2007

Management of land & natural resources; Databases

Computing and database management has shifted from cottage industry-style methods -- the small independent researcher keeping records for a particular project -- to state-of-the-art file storage systems, presentation, and distribution over the Internet. New and emerging techniques for recognition, compilation, and data management have made managing data a discipline in its own right. Covering all aspects of this data management, Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics, and Applications brings together input from social scientists, programmers, database designers, and information specialists to delineate the political setting and give institutions platforms for the dissemination of taxonomic information. A practical and logical guide to complex issues, the book explores the changes and challenges of the information age. It discusses projects developed to provide better access to all available biodiversity information. The chapters make the case for the need for representation of concepts in taxonomic databases. They explore issues involved in connecting databases with different user interfaces, the technical demands of linking databases that are not entirely uniform in structure, and the problems of user access and the control of data quality. The book highlights different approaches to addressing concerns associated with the taxonomic impediment and the low reproducibility of taxonomic data. It provides an in-depth examination of the challenge of making taxonomic information more widely available to users in the wider scientific community, in government, and the general population.

Edited by: Gordon B. Curry, Chris J. Humphries
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9780415332903
ISBN 10: 0415332907
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 25 April 2007
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gordon B. Curry, Chris J. Humphries

Reviews for Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics, and Applications

I recommend Biodiversity Databases' to anyone who is looking for a good entry point into the field of biodiversity informatics, with the qualification that the reality of data integration might be more lively than some chapters let on. --The Systematist, 2010 ! addresses many of the new features of the types of databases now in service and make cases for even more improvements. They focus on best practices and applications as they describe concepts and installations! --SciTech Book News This book is indispensable for those who would build or use an electronic repository of taxonomic information previously contained only in such analog formats as herbaria or specimen labels, mapping projects, tissue culture collections, etc. This work will also be of value to natural history researchers wishing to contribute to the global effort to document species diversity by gathering the primary data that goes into or is used by the various biodiversity databases ... Summing Up: Recommended. -- K. A. Newman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in Choice: Current Review for Academic Libraries, November 2007, Vol. 45, No. 3