Chapter Plant Name Resources
Plant names are the key to communicating and managing information about plants. This paper considers how providers of high quality technical plant name information can better meet the requirements non-botanical audiences who also rely on plant names for elements of their work. The International Plan...
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| author | Paton, Alan Allkin, Robert Belyaeva, Irina Dauncey, Elizabeth Govaerts, Rafaël Edwards, Sarah Irving, Jason Leon, Christine Lughadha, Eimear Nic |
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| description | Plant names are the key to communicating and managing information about plants. This paper considers how providers of high quality technical plant name information can better meet the requirements non-botanical audiences who also rely on plant names for elements of their work. The International Plant Name Index, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families and The Plant List are used as examples to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of plant name resources from a non-expert user’s perspective. The above resources can be thought of as botanists pushing data at audiences. Without closer engagement with users, however, there is a limit to their relevance and impact. The need to cover common names is a frequent criticism of existing resources. The Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS, www.kew.org/mpns) is an example of how plant name resources can be adapted to better address the needs of a non-botanical audience. Some of the major challenges are outlined and solutions suggested. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-370882025-01-29T13:58:31Z Chapter Plant Name Resources Paton, Alan Allkin, Robert Belyaeva, Irina Dauncey, Elizabeth Govaerts, Rafaël Edwards, Sarah Irving, Jason Leon, Christine Lughadha, Eimear Nic Plant names information plants thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany and plant sciences Plant names are the key to communicating and managing information about plants. This paper considers how providers of high quality technical plant name information can better meet the requirements non-botanical audiences who also rely on plant names for elements of their work. The International Plant Name Index, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families and The Plant List are used as examples to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of plant name resources from a non-expert user’s perspective. The above resources can be thought of as botanists pushing data at audiences. Without closer engagement with users, however, there is a limit to their relevance and impact. The need to cover common names is a frequent criticism of existing resources. The Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS, www.kew.org/mpns) is an example of how plant name resources can be adapted to better address the needs of a non-botanical audience. Some of the major challenges are outlined and solutions suggested. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-10-02 10:40:51 2020-04-01T12:21:33Z 2016 chapter 1001600 OCN: 1076752479 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28359 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37088 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28359/1/Paton_et_al.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28359/1/Paton_et_al.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28359/1/Paton_et_al.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28359/1/Paton_et_al.pdf United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) 613c3325-1fd1-44c1-9030-5885c51bccb6 Botanists of the twenty-first century Wellcome Trust Wellcome 10 open access |
| spellingShingle | Plant names information plants thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany and plant sciences Paton, Alan Allkin, Robert Belyaeva, Irina Dauncey, Elizabeth Govaerts, Rafaël Edwards, Sarah Irving, Jason Leon, Christine Lughadha, Eimear Nic Chapter Plant Name Resources |
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