Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Database Projects

• Prometheus Project

• Federal Geographic Data Committee Biological Data Working Group especially Biological Nomenclature and Taxonomy Data Standard's Biological Nomenclature/Taxonomy Meeting Summary, November 2-3, 2000 as Microsoft Word's doc file by Steve Taswell and Robert Peet

• Species 2000 and its mirror sites at USA or Asia Oseania which intends to be a (single) list of biological names as a federation of taxnomy databases based on expertee. Each database is expected to have a single taxonomic view, and parhaps Species 2000 also intends to have is unified view (otherwise it can not be a single list of biological names).

• ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System provides tools including the Taxonomic Workbench. ITIS Canada provides comparison of multiple taxonomic view

• IOPI model
  A Taxonomic Information Model for Botanical Databases
• Curiosities of Biological Taxonomy
  a list of funny names. See Dr. Berendsohn's works for detail
• BIOSIS Taxonomy & Nomenclature
  Zoological Record
• Species Analyst
• Syngraph
  Syngraph is a relational database application that allows linkage of any published name to any other using a lexicon of modifiers that are conventional in taxonomy, anchoring each use to its bibliographic reference. Through the use of color and other symbology, the synonymies list generated by the report function of Syngraph provides in graphic format more information than is provided in conventional lists about the relation of the name to other members of the list and about confidence in that usage. The electronic application allows access to all published uses of a name, which print lists commonly do not.
  The tracking and display of names in Syngraph has two functions:
  • to create the historical record of name use: this is the function that is relevant to taxonomic publications such as descriptions and monographs.
  • to allow the testing of hypotheses about the application of names: this function has broad applications in systematics and biogeography.
  
  
  by Adorian Ardelean

Related Technologies

DBMS

• Active Object-Oriented Databases

CORBA

• ORL Home Page
• omniORB2
  A free ORB (Object Request Broaker) implementation
• Linux Today: Object Management Group's (OMG's) CORBA available for Linux

Java

• KFC
  lighter than JFC (K stands for neithr Kentucky nor next to J)

• Visualization (in Japanese)
• UEC: IS: Researches at Information Visualization Laboratory
• http://www.rcg.nl/~dave/a4index.html
• Zeus and Algorithm Animation at SRC