Biodiversity databases : : techniques, politics, and applications / / edited by Gordon B. Curry, Chris J. Humphries.
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, com...
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| Superior document: | Systematics association special volume series ; 73 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boca Raton, Florida ;, London : : CRC Press,, 2007. ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Systematics Association special volume ;
no. 73. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front cover; Contents; Preface; The Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF); Chapter 2. The European Network for Biodiversity Information; Chapter 3. Networking Taxonomic Concepts - Uniting without 'Unitary-ism'; Chapter 4. Networking Biological Collections Databases; Chapter 5. Morphometric and Artificial Neural Network Approaches to the Automated Species Recognition Problem in Systematics; Chapter 6. Automated Extraction of Biodiversity Data from Taxonomic Descriptions; Chapter 7. The Grid and Biodiversity Informatics
- Chapter 8. LIAS - An Interactive Database System for Structured Descriptive Data of AscomycetesChapter 9. Linking Biodiversity Databases; Chapter 10. Priority Areas for Rattan Conservation on Borneo; Index; Systematics Association Publications; Back cover