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e-Monocot is a NERC funded consortium between Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Oxford University and the Natural History Museum.

 

Grant no's 279981, 279984 & 279970. Period, Nov./Dec. 2010 to Oct./Nov. 2013.

 

 

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Kew eTaxonomy Day Presentations

26 May 2011 - Pat Brenan Suite, HLAA, RBG Kew

The aims of the workshop were to: share ideas and techniques; consider different approaches to content and communities; think about taxonomy from the perspectives of different groups of users; and develop ideas on how we move the subject forward at Kew and beyond


Programme
(click on links to see the accompanying slideshow) 

0930-0940 Welcome

0940-1000 “Whatever happened to CATE?”  Anna Haigh & Ben Clark.

1000-1020 Neotropikey: online identification key and information resources to the Neotropical flowering plant families. Bente Klitgaard

1020-1040 Grassbase: The data volume challenge (notes to accompany slides) Maria Vorontsova

1040-1100 Scratchpads past, present and future Vince Smith

1100-1120 eTaxonomy of the bulbous monocots in CITES: Galanthus and Sternbergia Anna Trias Blasi

1120-1140 Coffee

1140-1200 Fungi of the British Isles Paul Cannon

1200-1220 eMonocot Project Update Paul Wilkin

1220-1240 Palms of the World online: Web Taxonomy via Palmweb Lauren Gardener

1240-1300 Elements of a modern monograph on-line Sandy Knapp.

1300-1315 Discussion


Scratchpads developed and conceived by: Vince Smith, Simon Rycroft, Dave Roberts, Ben Scott...