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Biota Taiwanica: An Electronic Publishing Platform Integrating TaiCOL,TaiBIF, and TaiEOL

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Project identifier AS-ASCDC-114-106
Conducted by Biodiversity Research Center
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Overview

Biota, which includes fauna and flora, is a scholarly treatments that describes the full range of organisms that occur in a region. The writing of biota is the ultimate goal of biological taxonomy, and the completion of a national biota is not only a demonstration of academic strength, but also a great contribution to the management of biodiversity resources in academic education. However, due to the lack of taxonomic talents and research funding, the writing of biota in Taiwan has been stagnant, and among them, the last completed flora has not been updated for more than 20 years. During this period, changes in the classification system resulted from new discoveries and the adoption of new technology have made the updating of flora absolutely urgent. This project will integrate TaiCOL (Catalogue of Life in Taiwan), TaiBIF (Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility) and TaiEOL (Taiwan Encyclopedia of Life), three major biodiversity databases of Taiwan, to establish an electronic publishing platform, Biota Taiwanica. Using five recently published taxonomic revisions of Artocarpus, Berberis, Broussonetia, Camphora, and Lysimachia, eFlora will be generated by Biota Taiwanica that can be customized based on users’ choices of specific localities and extent of nomenclatural completion, both in English or Chinese, with a International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). In the second year, we will continue to optimize Biota Taiwanica and publish the unpublished or partially published master's and doctoral dissertations in Biota Taiwanica, so that their taxonomic results can be incorporated into TaiCOL. In the third year, we will aim to produce the complete "Flora of Green Island" with 850 plant species, so as to show the results of the digital publication of Biota Taiwanica. This project aims to accelerate the publication of biological journals, which will contribute greatly to the conservation, education, and management of biodiversity in Taiwan.

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