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Palm monography use case

• Table of contents
• Outline
• Activities
  • Continuous Activities
  • gather specimens
  • examine specimens
  • publish

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Outline¶

• revise nomenclature & taxonomy

• create dichotomous & multiaccess keys

• manage more descriptive data

• create distribution maps

• of individual specimen points

• of regional occurrences

• publish monograph

• work individually, possibly offline

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• Global community of palm taxonomists

• Contact experts to participate in PoNG project

• Assign sub-groups to individuals

• Individuals submit contributions to PoNG editors

Activities¶

Continuous Activities¶

Continually used

a) Specimen database

Collaborators send Excel spreadsheets of specimens to WB

WB imports them into specimen db

Collaborators request exports from specimen database

b) Palm checklist

Imports and exports

c) Literature – no central resource is maintained

gather specimens¶

Taxonomist partitions specimens into work-groups

Refer to specimen database

Request loans

Gather specimens from Kew collection

examine specimens¶

Initial division of specimens into groups

Per group:

Visual examination of specimens

Develop species hypotheses

Referring back to published hypotheses

Define hypotheses qualitatively and quantitatively

Create datasheet of measurements

Check hypothesis against specimens

Create draft description using template

Write draft description using measurements

publish¶

Prepare treatment incorporating descriptions, key and tables.

Commission artist to produce images

Supervise creation of images

Prepare references and specimen list

Compile paper to include abstract, introduction, taxonomic treatment (description, taxonomic key, comparison table), also images, a list of all specimens used and a list of references to cited papers

Submit to editorial board

Peer review

Edit paper following editorial and peer-review comments