All Types & Nomenclature
Berlin Model v2.0 Wed, 10/17/2007 - 09:40The Berlin Model is based on the IOPI model and various later implementations of the basic principles laid out therein. It fully incorporates "potential taxa" (taxa as circumscribed by a reference) as well as the full complexity of botanical names according to the rules of botanical nomenclature. Actually the Berlin Model is implemented as a SQL Server 2000 database. Please contact us for any question or comment.
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Thu, 01/17/2008 - 17:35The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI will be a dynamic resource, depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical community.
IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium
Tolkin Wed, 07/09/2008 - 14:00TOLKIN is an on-line research tool to be shared among several laboratories working remotely. It is an information management and analytical web application to provide informatics support for phylodiversity and biodiversity research projects. As a web-based application, TOLKIN is able to support collaborative projects by providing shared access to a variety of data on voucher specimens, taxonomy, bibliography, morphology, DNA samples and sequences.
TROPICOS Thu, 01/17/2008 - 17:37W3TROPICOS provides new and improved access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST nomenclatural database and associated authority files. In this release (rev. 1.5), the following information is provided when present (* indicates a hypertext link to additional information about a name or reference):
- Names data
- Plant name and authors
- Group and family placement
- Place and date of publication
- Type information
- *Basionym, with place and date of publication
- *Next Higher Taxon, with place and date of publication
- *Other uses of this name
- *Synonyms of this name, and *References for the alternate usage
- *Homonyms and *Infraspecific names for species
- Reference
- Author(s) of the publication
- Date of publication
- Title of the article
- Journal or book title
- Volume and page numbers
- Keywords
ZooBank Thu, 01/17/2008 - 17:41The scientific names of animal species are crucial to effective global communication about biodiversity, and hence its use and conservation. Without broad agreement on the name of a disease-bearing microbe, vital food species, or threatened animal, we can't even begin to combat, exploit or conserve them. So, in scientific language, humans are Homo sapiens and honeybees are Apis mellifera; and this is true all over the world.
The universal acceptance and adoption of a system for naming animals is an incredible achievement for mankind, and started in 1758 with the publication of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae by the Swedish biologist Carolus Linnaeus. Exactly 250 years after the very day that the ICZN Code fixes the official start of scientific zoological nomenclature (January 1, 1758), the ZooBank Registration website was officially launched.
The ZooBank Registry is still very-much a work in progress, and will likely remain so over the course of 2008-2009. The development process is intentionally gradual, to allow the creation of a solid foundation with input and support from as much of the active zoological taxonomy community as possible. Several documents outlining various aspects of the history and development of ZooBank are available here.
The ICZN is especially grateful to Thomson Scientific, owners of the Zoological Record, for their help and assistance in creating an early version of ZooBank based on the Index to Organism Names. As ZooBank continues to grow during its early development period, you may wish to link to the current version of the Index to Organism Names - a much more comprehensive listing of zoological nomenclature, cross-linked to relevant literature. ICZN looks forward to a long and mutually advantageous relationship with Thomson Scientific.
