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Title Gathering, maintenance, analysis, and web-presentation of lichen diversity data from the BIOTA Southern Africa observatories

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Short title Lichen data management

Author(s) Zedda, L.(1,2); Neubacher, D.(1,3); Köhler, Th.(1); Rambold, G.(1)

Presenting author Zedda, L.

Institution(s) (1) Lehrstuhl für Pflanzensystematik, Universität Bayreuth; (2) INRES, Abt. Geobotanik und Naturschutz, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn; (3) Botanische Staatssammlung München

Keywords Southern Africa; BIOTA observatories; lichen diversity; data management; web services

Abstract Various kinds of lichen diversity data have been collected in the framework of the BIOTA Southern Africa project. Data of the following domains proved to be relevant for the project: 1) georeferenced collection data; 2) data on diagnostically relevant descriptive characters; 3) lichen community data; 4) digital images of lichens and vegetation sampling areas. Data are gathered and stored in PostgreSQL and MS SQL server database components of the Diversity Workbench suite (www.diversityworkbench.net): DiversityCollection, DiversityDescriptions, and DiversityTaxonNames. For platform-independent remote data entry, maintenance, and query, modularized Java and .Net-based database rich clients were developed as well as various JSP and PHP web interfaces.

Congress Topic Capacity development

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