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BIGTAX - Repository for scientific and common names of plants
BIGTAX - Repository for scientific and common names of plants
E. BOOS 1 , W. BRAUN 2 , R. MAY 3 and J. OCHSMANN 4
The main access path to the information in the Federal Information System Genetic
resources (BIG; Bundesinformationssystem Genetische Ressourcen, see ROSCHER
et al. 2003) is the search for taxa by their name. All factual data is connected to taxa.
The taxa have scientific or common names and each database has its own list of
names and its own synonymy.
The search for names is supported by a central repository, which contains the
scientific names of each searchable database and - if existing - their common names
and the synonymy. A simple entity-relationship model of the data structure is shown
below:
1 Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Universitätsstraße 150
D-44780 Bochum, Germany
2 Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und –information (ZADI)
Abt. IBV
Villichgasse 17
D-53177 Bonn, Germany
3 Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
Konstantinstr. 110
D-53179 Bonn, Germany
4
Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
Department of Taxonomy
Corrensstraße 3
D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
present address: KWS Saat AG, Postfach 1463, D-37555 Einbeck, Germany
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db-source
a taxon may have
n common names
common name
a database contains
n taxa
taxon
a synonym name may have
n accepted names
a scientific name may
belong to n taxa
synonymy
scientific name
a taxon may have
n synonyms