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Table of Contents
ILDIS publications
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Adey, M.E., Allkin, R., Bisby, F.A., White, R.J. & Macfarlane, T.D. The Vicieae Database: an experimental taxonomic monograph. In: R. Allkin and F.A. Bisby, 1984, pp. 175-188 [book at 1CM]
(Describes the Vicieae Database Project and how its morphological data set for the legume tribe Vicieae was assembled and managed (using the Exir DBMS with several purpose-written import and export utilities) in order to permit querying and the production of various printed reports. Data encoding and conversion is discussed.)
R. Allkin and F.A. Bisby, eds. Databases in Systematics, London, Academic Press, Systematics Association Special Volume 26, 1984. [book at 1CM]
Allkin, R. & White, R.J. Data management models for biological classification. In: Bock, H.H., ed., Classification and related methods of data analysis, Elsevier (North-Holland), Amsterdam, 1988, 653- 402 [book at 8SG]
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Allkin, R., White, R.J. & Winfield, P.J. Handling the structure of biological data. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 16, 1992, 1-9
Babac M.T. & Bisby, F.A. A Chemotaxonomic Database. In: R. Allkin and F.A. Bisby, 1984, pp. 209-218 [book at 1CM]
(Describes the phytochemical database for the legume tribe Vicieae, managed by the Exir DBMS, built as part of the Vicieae Database Project and planned to be a “phase 2” project for ILDIS.)
Bisby, F.A., White, R.J., Macfarlane, T.D. & Babac, M.T. The Vicieae Database Project: experimental uses of a monographic taxonomic database for species of vetch and pea. In: J. Felsenstein, ed. Numerical Taxonomy, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, NATO Advanced Study Institute Series, G1, 1983, 625-629
Bisby, F.A., Russell, G.F. & Pankhurst, R.J., eds., Designs for a Global Plant Species Information System, Oxford University Press, 1993 [the title page quotes the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993, but the actual publication date was February 1994] [book at 1CM]
Southon, I.W., Bisby, F.A., Buckingham, J., Harborne, J.B., Zarucchi, J.L., Polhill, R.M., Adams, B.R., Lock, J.M., White, R.J., Bowes, I., Hollis, S. & Heald, J. Phytochemical Dictionary of the Leguminosae. Chapman & Hall, London, 1994, 1580pp [ISBN 0 412 39770 6] [book at 8SG]
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Shimura, J., Ichiyanagi, Y., Hollis, S., White, R.J. & Bisby, F.A. A linked rhizobia and plant host information system (RAPHIS) on the World-wide Web. Microbiol. Cult. Coll., 14, 1997, 23-32
Roskov, Y.R., Bisby, F.A., Zarucchi, J.L., Schrire, B.D. & White, R.J. World database of Legumes - results from the first twenty years of the ILDIS project. In: Information Systems on Biodiversity of Species & Ecosystems: Scientific Program & Abstracts, St. Petersburg, 2003, 6-7
Roskov Y.R., Bisby F.A., Zarucchi J.L., Schrire B.D. & White R.J. (eds.) ILDIS World Database of Legumes: draft checklist, version 10 [published June 2006, but CD shows November 2005 date]. ILDIS, Reading, UK, 2006 [CD-Rom: ISBN 0 7049 1248 1] (also available online at https://ildis.org)
White, R.J., Allkin, R. & Winfield, P.J. Systematic databases: the Baobab design and the Alice system. In: Fortuner, R., ed., Advances in Computer Methods for Systematic Biology: Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Computer Vision, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1993, 297-311 [book at 1CM]
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White, R.J. & Allkin, R. A strategy for the evolution of database designs. In: Bisby, F.A., Russell, G.F. & Pankhurst, R.J., 1993, pp. 284-303
(Emphasised the importance of data exchange mechanisms (such as Delta and XDF), including the use of XDF by the Alice software to merge contributed data sets, rather than relying on a single common data structure for all databases.)
White, R.J., Jones, A.C., Gray, W.A. & Bisby, F.A. Creating frameworks to support interoperability of biodiversity data. Proc. BNCOD21 Bioinformatics Workshop, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 2004, 92-105 [ISBN 1-904410-12-X] [book at 8SG]
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White, R.J. Linking biodiversity databases: preparing species diversity information sources by assembling, merging and linking databases. In: Curry, G.B. & Humphries, C.J., eds., Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics and Applications, CRC Press, 2007, 111-128, ISBN 0-415-33290-7 [book at 1CM]
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Zarucchi, J.L., Winfield, P.J., Polhill, R.M., Hollis, S., Bisby, F.A. & Allkin, R. The ILDIS project on the world's legume species diversity. In: Bisby, F.A., Russell, G.F. & Pankhurst, R.J., 1993, pp. 131-144 [book at 1CM]
(Describes the assembly of the ILDIS database from regional contributions to make the “Phase 1” checklist with geographical data and a few morphological and plant-use fields, with full citation of references, and explains current and planned future activities aiming to use this as a “backbone” to link in “Phase 2” data sets, especially phytochemistry (Babac & Bisby, 1984) and nodulation data. Emphasises the role of ILDIS in providing services to users, and interestingly assumes that scientists will send their requests to “enquiry centres”, thus failing to foresee the rapid growth of the Internet and especially the World-Wide Web, although an experimental online data retrieval was planned.)
Notes (primarily for the Anne Bruneau legume history MS)
History
According to Peter Brewer's PhD project first year report (November 2001), ILDIS (Bisby et al. 2000, 2001) began in 1985 (Zarucchi et al., 1993) and was (at version 5 in 2001) “nearing completion”.
The 5th ILDIS Workshop was held at Reading (17-18 November 2005) immediately following the 7th UK Legume Workshop held at Kew (15 November 2005).
Descendants
ILDIS was was of the first two or three(?) GSDs contributing to the Species 2000 Catalogue of Life.
Burnett J., IOPI: genesis of GPSIS? In: Bisby, F.A., Russell, G.F. & Pankhurst, R.J., eds., Designs for a Global Plant Species Information System, Oxford University Press, 1994, 334-342 (IOPI could be viewed as a step between ILDIS and CoL.) [book at 8SG]