The Prometheus Description Model: An examination of the taxonomic description-building process and its representation

Taxon

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 751-765

  Pullan, Martin R ^a   Armstrong, Kate E ^a   Paterson, Trevor ^b   Cannon, Alan ^b   Kennedy, Jessie B ^b   Watson, Mark F ^a   McDonald, Sarah ^a   Raguenaud, Cédric ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Descriptions; Ontology; Prometheus description model; Taxonomic descriptive data

Indexed keywords

TAXONOMY;

EID: 27144466804     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25065431     Document Type: Article

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