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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Botanical informatics - MB120P15
Title: Botanická informatika
Guaranteed by: Department of Botany (31-120)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2012
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech
Additional information: http://ibot.sav.sk/usr/Karol/teaching_mat.html
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Karol Marhold, DrSc.
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Annotation -
Please note, the lectures are given in Czech language. English version of the course can be requested in advance if there are at least 3 students. Aim of the subject is to provide information on the content and building of information sources concerning biodiversity, especially its botanical part. Information will be provided on international standards for taxonomical databases, on available sources concerning biodiversity on Internet (on nomenclature, distribution of plants, bibliographic resources, etc.), on related international projects (BioCASE, ENBI, GBIF, Species Plantarum - Flora of the World), on interactive identification keys. Students are expected to be acquainted with the basic software, which is used for building databases as well as for providing data via Internet.
Last update: Kubátová Gabriela, PhDr., Ph.D. (13.04.2006)
Literature -

Stuessy, T. F. & Lack, H. W., eds, 2011, Monographic plant systematics: Fundamental assessment of plant biodiversity, Ruggell: A. R. G. Gantner Verlag K. G.

Last update: Marhold Karol, prof. RNDr., DrSc. (26.04.2012)
Course assessment methods and requirements for successful completion, grading scheme -

oral examination

Last update: Marhold Karol, prof. RNDr., DrSc. (03.11.2011)
Syllabus -
  • Botanical informatics as part of the quickly developing biodiversity informatics.

  • International standards for taxonomic databases (TDWG - Taxonomic Databases Working Group).

  • Major international projects and international organisations in biodiversity informatics (.BioCASE, ECAT, ENBI, GBIF ?)

  • Information sources available via Internet (nomenclature, distribution data, and bibliographic information).

  • Standardisation of morphological characters; program DELTA and its use; creating the interactive keys; examples of interactive identification keys from various groups of organisms.

  • Digitalisation of unit data from herbarium collections, national and international projects; ABCD, Darwin Core - schemas enabling exchange of collections unit data.

  • Metadata and their description.

  • Basic software used for building databases as well as for providing data via Internet.

Last update: SUDA (29.09.2003)
 
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