Taxonomy as an eScience

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1890, 2009, Pages 953-966

  Clark, Benjamin R ^a   Godfray, H Charles J ^a   Kitching, Ian J ^b   Mayo, Simon J ^c   Scoble, Malcolm J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Online peer review; Taxonomic revisions; Web based taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

E SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; NEW SPECIES; ONLINE PEER REVIEW; TAXONOMIC REVISIONS; WEB-BASED TAXONOMY;

TAXONOMIES;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; SCIENCE;

BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCIENCE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 60349132002     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0190     Document Type: Article

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