Integrated Biodiversity Information System I B I S Australian National Botanic Gardens Australian National Herbarium

Names

Some sources for authoritative plant names and synonymies in Australia

• http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/databases/apni-search-full.html APNI web interface
  provides human readable presentation of the history of the usage of a name with varying taxonomic context. Usages accepted by the Australian Plant Census (APC) project are flagged accordingly. It is important to note that output here is synthesised from several underlying components.  Names, Taxa, References, Publications and People.

• http://biodiversity.org.au/name/
  Provides a very simple interface that delivers HTML output listing matching Name objects in NSL together with the current concept where possible (APC and AFD are only 50% complete at this time). Restricting queries by Botanical Code narrows the result set to data from APNI/APC (Fungi, Mosse, Algae later ). The referenced Name object contains links to subsequent usages and the taxon object to synonyms and classification.

• http://biodiversity.org.au/name/Doodia_aspera (this underscore can be a space)
  Provides direct access to a name object with links to subsequent taxonomic usage and APC (as accepted name) if treated there.

• http://biodiversity.org.au/taxon/Dodonaea_ovata
  Returns the current taxon records that include this name - either as synonym in this case or as accepted name.

The last two URIs are aliases for object names which can be dereferenced by your client interface to deliver HTML, XML, RDF, CSV, or JSON resources. The default output for a web browser is not always predictable so explicit requests to the HTML resource should add an html extension thus ... http://biodiversity.org.au/taxon/Dodonaea_ovata.html

The name and taxon URI discovered using these tools should be used without extension for cross referencing external datasets through NSL.
http://biodiversity.org.au/apni.name/18354 is the NSL unique identifier for the name object that is Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq.

http://biodiversity.org.au/apni.taxon/298605 is the NSL unique identifier for the taxon object that is Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq. sensu CHAH 2006.

These URIs can also be expressed as LSIDs in the form
urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.name:18354

• IBIS Services
  Prototype services for names, taxa and references used in AFD, APNI and APC

Note from Greg Whitbread, ALA team lead for National Species Lists

Mapping Names is relatively easy and we are working on improving ways to do that. Mapping concepts after the fact is difficult. But for newly entered taxa, matching to APC concepts should be doable. In either case integrating NSL identifiers for names and concepts will provide for ALA level interoperability.