(under construction)

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

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, eds. Databases in Systematics, London, Academic Press, Systematics Association Special Volume 26, 1984, 175-188 [book at 8SG]

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]

Allkin, R., White, R.J. & Winfield, P.J. Handling the structure of biological data. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 16, 1992, 1-9

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 8SG]

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]

White, R.J. & Allkin, R. A strategy for the evolution of database designs. In: Bisby, F.A., Russell, G.F. & Pankhurst, R.J., eds., Designs for a Global Plant Species Information System, Oxford University Press, 1994, 284-303 [book at 8SG]

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

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]

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]

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 8SG]

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 (in 2001) nearing completion.

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]