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| Contributors and Chairmen | |
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| Global Plant Species | |
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| Information Systems (GPSIS): 'blue skies design' or tomorrow's workplan? | |
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| Demand for a global plant species information system | |
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| The need for a worldwide botanical reference system | |
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| US Interagency botanical data application, needs, and the PLANTS database | |
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| Napralert: problems and achievements in the field of natural products | |
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| Prolegomena on a species information system for the flora of the Rocky Mountains | |
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| The need for information on genetic resources | |
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| Plant breeding and resource information | |
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| Standard and alternative taxonomic data in the multi-institutional Natural Heritage Data Centre network | |
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| Botanical decision-making and data-collection strategies | |
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| A view of the future for floristic research | |
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| Instability in biological nomenclature: problems and solutions | |
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| Lists of names in current use and their possible role in a global plant species information system | |
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| The proposed Species Plantarum Project (SPP) | |
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| The ILDIS project on the world's legume species diversity | |
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| Botanical strategies for compiling a global plant checklist | |
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| The role of individual botanists and small organizations in the development and maintenance of a global plant information system (GPIS) | |
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| Botanical decision-making and data-collection strategies - the role of small institutions | |
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| The role of large institutions in a global plant species information system | |
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| System design | |
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| Designing a world service: a BIOSIS viewpoint | |
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| Centralized, distributed, and replicated databases: the pros and cons | |
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| A global plant taxonomy database: design considerations | |
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| Linking related databases: a microbiological approach | |
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| Adopting a transaction processing model for a global plant species information system | |
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| Design aspects of an enterprise computing environment for systematics | |
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| Networks and communications: the internet | |
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| Data structures and software | |
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| Alternative models for taxonomic data | |
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| A strategy for the evolution of database designs | |
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| Software development strategies for global plant information systems | |
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| Practical steps to establish a system | |
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| Management models for a global plant species information system | |
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| The GPSIS action group: a call to action | |
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| on behalf of the GPSIS Action Group | |
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| IOPI: the genesis of GPSIS | |
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| Index | |