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IPNI - The starting point for global plant information
The Plant Names Project is a consortium of the Harvard
University Herbaria, the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the
Australian National Herbarium
The goal of the Plant Names Project is to compile and maintain
a comprehensive literature based record of the scientific names of all
vascular plants and to make it freely available on the Internet as the
International Plant Names Index.
To do this, International Plant Names Index will:
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Be shared and collaborative in content and operation.
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Be made available on the internet without charge.
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Seek input and contributions from the botanical community.
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Encourage additional institutional partners to act as hosts for the
database
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Be nomenclatural in focus.
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Be bibliographic and based on primary literature references.
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Differentiate published and interpreted information
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Include consensus assignments of families and genera, and allow a
range of alternative views
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Use an open architecture and community standards for structure and
data
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Provide data gateways that can be used by other database applications
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Facilitate links to data managed by other database applications
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