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Bioscience Horizons Advance Access originally published online on February 18, 2009
Bioscience Horizons 2009 2(1):90-96; doi:10.1093/biohorizons/hzp007
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Insights into the development of online plant identification keys based on literature review: an exemplar electronic key to Australian Drosera

Robyn E. Drinkwater*

University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AA, UK

* Corresponding author: University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AA, UK. Tel: +44 01183787189. Email: redrinkwater{at}googlemail.com

Supervisor: Dr Alastair Culham, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AA, UK.


  Abstract

Keys are traditionally created from data gathered from real observations, which can be a complex and time-consuming process. With a large number of texts containing written descriptions of species, data needed for the creation of a key are already available. A number of published works on Drosera were chosen and the data in these were used to create an interactive, web-based key. The types of data used were evaluated for ease of use and accuracy and the effectiveness of purely literature-based data was tested. The resulting key highlighted a number of problems of using characters and states which have not been observed, as well as showing that literature-based research can lead to a workable key.

Key words: interactive keys, Drosera, web-based key, multi-access

Submitted on 30 September 2008; in revised form 24 January 2009;
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