Organization:International Organization for Plant Information
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The International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI) is an international organization founded on September 20, 1991.[1] It runs a series of collaborative international projects aimed at establishing databases of plant classification information and is a committee of the International Union of Biological Sciences.[2]
The Global Plant Checklist was its first objective is to provide a list of all plants by merging data from existing sources. This required development of data standards as well as international co-operation, starting in 1993.[3]
Later aims included the Species Plantarum Project to record taxonomic information about all the vascular plants in the world.[citation needed]
Its dataset was later incorporated into the Catalogue of Life.
References
- ↑ "International Organization for Plant Information". http://www1.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/ibc99/iopi/iopigral.html.
- ↑ "International Organization for Plant Information". http://www1.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/ibc99/iopi/iopihome.html.
- ↑ "Global Plant Checklist: Data Definitions". http://www1.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/ibc99/iopi/iopidds2.html.
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