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 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
+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.)
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 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//,
+//Advances in Computer Methods for Systematic Biology:
+Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Computer Vision//,
 Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1993, 297-311
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+//(Describes four aspects of taxonomic data
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+(the taxon hierarchy, character variability and dependence, and missing values)
+and how these are addressed in the unimplemented "Baobab" taxonomic database design
+and in the Alice software suite which was specifically implemented
+to handle these issues and provide a complete DBMS
+for taxonomists and other biologists working with taxonomically organised data sets.)//
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 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
+//Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics and Applications//,
+CRC Press, Systematics Association Special Volume **73**, 2007, 111-128, ISBN 0-415-33290-7
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+//(Explains how large collaborative biological databases
+(such as the ERMS checklist and the ILDIS World Database of Legumes)
+were assembled by //**merging**// contributed data sets,
+and contrasts this with //**linking**// databases together into larger systems
+in initiatives such as the Species 2000 Dynamic Checklist
+and its further development in the Spice project.
+Databases such as ILDIS and the Species 2000 Catalogue of Life are seen as
+taxonomic backbones to which a variety of further data sets can be linked
+to expand the range of data available to the user.
+The reliability of such "onward links" in the presence of factors
+such as differing taxonomic treatments in the various data sets is discussed,
+with a proposed solution using "cross-maps" prepared using the Litchi software,
+which was developed further in the "Biodiversity World" and "Species 2000 Europa" projects.)//
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