Plant Names in Botanical Databases
This standard defines the taxonomic and nomenclatural concepts associated with the names of plants. It describes the component parts, their functions and their interrelations of significance in structuring a database. The appendices provide an outline of a preliminary data dictionary illustrating possible elements and their properties. It does not provide a data model or a data format.
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Header section
- Title
- Plant Names in Botanical Databases
- Permanent IRI (for citations and links)
- http://www.tdwg.org/standards/113
- Publisher
- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
- Ratified
- 1995
- Status
- Prior standard
- Category
- Best current practice
- Abstract
- This standard defines the taxonomic and nomenclatural concepts associated with the names of plants. It describes the component parts, their functions and their interrelations of significance in structuring a database. The appendices provide an outline of a preliminary data dictionary illustrating possible elements and their properties. It does not provide a data model or a data format. A data model will be considered at a later date by the TDWG Sub-group considering this standard. Another TDWG Sub-group is preparing XDF (http://www.tdwg.org/standards/108 ), an EXchange Data Format (Allkin & White,1989; White & Allkin, 1992), which provides a language for defining a range of exchange formats for use between taxonomic databases.
- Citation
- TDWG Minimum Standard for Names in Botanical Databases Subgroup. 1995. Plant Names in Botanical Databases. International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases (TDWG) http://www.tdwg.org/standards/106
Parts of the standard
This standard is comprised of one document.
Plant Names in Botanical Databases
- Title
- Plant Names in Botanical Databases
- Permanent IRI
- http://rs.tdwg.org/pnbd/doc/specification/
- Created
- 1994-12
- Last modified
- 1994-12
- Contributors
- Frank A Bisby (author) - University of Southampton
- Publisher
- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
- Abstract
- This standard defines the taxonomic and nomenclatural concepts associated with the names of plants. It describes the component parts, their functions and their interrelations of significance in structuring a database.
- Note
- The introduction of this publication provides some historical information about TDWG and early standards it produced or adopted from elsewhere.
- Citation
- TDWG Minimum Standard for Names in Botanical Databases Subgroup (Author: Frank A. Bisby). 1994. Plant Names in Botanical Databases. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. http://rs.tdwg.org/pnbd/doc/specification/