introduction to emonocot (dave simpson)
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Iris hymenospatha. Photo M. Zarrei
The emonocot Team
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Background
• Started late 2010
• Funded by NERC via
consortium grant
• Large scale, coherent,
sustainable taxonomically
based information
resource on the monocots
• Primarily aimed towards
biodiversity scientists
• Why monocots?Fritillaria raddeana. Photo M. Zarrei
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Aims
1. Aid identification of monocots
worldwide
2. Provide wealth of information about
monocot taxa
3. Separately address the needs of
different users
4. Link together monocot taxonomists to
enhance productivity
5. Provide a model for web taxonomy
Lysichiton americanum. Photo I.
Kitching
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Organisation
Content team: Kew
• Content development
• Integration with strategic & ICT
programmes
• Post project sustainability
ICT team: Oxford
• Software development
• Link with bioinformatics & eScience
Outreach team: Natural History Museum
• Scratchpad functionality
• Extension to Zoology
• Web metricsDioscorea dodecaneura fruit
Photo A. Popovkin
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Existing resources
CATE-Araceae (www.cate-araceae.org)
• 104 genera, c. 4000 species
Palmweb (www.palmweb.org)
• 190 genera, c. 2600 species
GrassBase (www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html)
• C.700 genera, 11,611 species
World Checklist (www.kew.org/wcsp/monocots)
• C.70,000 species Monstera adansonii
Photo I. Andrade
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Deliverables
APGIII families key/pages (77 families)
Generic keys/pages (c.2100 genera):• Araceae [CATE-Araceae]
• Arecaceae [Palmweb]
• Asparagaceae
• Cyperaceae
• Dioscoreaceae
• Liliaceae
• Orchidaceae
• Poaceae [GrassBase]
Species level resources: • European Monocots (c.2000 spp)
• Cypripedioideae (c.130 spp)
• Sampled Red List Index Project (1500 spp)Carex juvenlis
Photo Dave Simpson
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Cyperaceae one
of eight key
families
Expected outputs:
• Key to genera
• Genus pages – all genera worldwide
• Species pages for European Cyperaceae
• Species pages for Sampled Red List Index Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae community can contribute much more
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Content Progress
Developing keys in LUCID: Monocot families
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Content Progress
Developing keys in LUCID: Dioscoreaceae
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Content Progress
Developing keys in LUCID: Cypripedioideae
Cypripedium kentuckiense.
Photo N. Turland
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Content Progress Identifying content sources and acquiring content; an
administration database has been constructed.
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Content Progress
• Report on communities and
content
• Establishing a collaborative
link with the Swiss Orchid
Foundation to deliver Orchid
content
• Dioscoreaceae scratchpad
in development
Dactylorhiza praetermissa. Photo I. Kitching
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Content Progress - Cyperaceae
ProtologuesLinks to BHL: 611
Digitised: 214
Taxon descriptions 104 generic descriptions from Kubitzki
9 additional genera about to be
processed
35 species descriptions from Sedges
of the British Isles (out of 106)
Mapania mangenotiana. Photo A . Mesterhazy
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ICT progress
• Stakeholder survey
• Documentation of existing systems
• Existing systems functionality workshop
• Content documentation
• Data exchange standards, tools & technologies documentation
• emonocot design work
Iris acutiloba Photo M. Zarrei
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ICT progress
Prototype architecture
• Portal plus data editing system
• Scratchpad role
Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae
contributors
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Outreach Progress
• Impact plan – UK monocot ID
guide
• Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
• Developing links to UK
biodiversity scientists &
volunteer scientists
Monocot guided walk
Photo Ed Baker
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Photo Paul Wilkin
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Outreach Progress
Workshops for Monocot
systematists
• Call for proposals in
Summer 2011
• First workshop in
Chicago in September:
Carex
Subsequent workshops in
London & potentially
worldwide in late 2011 &
2012Iris reticulata. Photo
M. Zarrei
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In summary…
• Significant progress in all
project areas
• Much more work to do
Allium ursinum
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Website
http://e-monocot.org
Crocus sieberi & Scilla bifolia
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• Flora of Thailand
• Flora Malesiana
• Flora of Peninsular
Malaysia
• Flora of Vietnam
• Nothing for Cambodia or
Laos
Thailand and Malaysia