The Prometheus II Description Model: an objective approach to representing taxonomic descriptions
Working Paper
MacDonald, S. M., Raguenaud, C., Pullan, M. R., Kennedy, J., Russell, G., & Watson, M. F. The Prometheus II Description Model: an objective approach to representing taxonomic descriptions)
MacDonald, S. M., Raguenaud, C., Pullan, M. R., Kennedy, J., Russell, G., & Watson, M. F. The Prometheus II Description Model: an objective approach to representing taxonomic descriptions
A model for improving the storage and communication of plant descriptions is presented. The model is flexible and yet reduces the ambiguity often present in text descriptions....
The Prometheus Taxonomic Model: a practical approach to representing multiple classification.
Journal Article
Pullan, M. R., Watson, M. F., Kennedy, J., Raguenaud, C., & Hyam, R. (2000)
The Prometheus Taxonomic Model: a practical approach to representing multiple classification. Taxon, 49, 55-75
A model for representing taxonomic data in a flexible and dynamic system capable of handling and comparing multiple simultaneous classifications is presented. The Prometheus T...
The Prometheus database for taxonomy
Conference Proceeding
Raguenaud, C., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. (2000)
The Prometheus database for taxonomy. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2000 (250-252). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssdm.2000.869793
This paper presents the work carried out in the Prometheus project and its motivation, taxonomy. Taxonomy presents challenges to common database systems. Because of its comple...
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Conference Proceeding
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The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification. In N. W. Paton, & T. Griffiths (Eds.), Proceedings [of] IEEE User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems (UIDIS) 1999, 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1109/UIDIS.1999.791461
Techniques for visualising hierarchies have concentrated on displaying static structures or, in the case of dynamic hierarchies, adding or deleting nodes from the hierarchy. H...
Using a persistent system to construct a customised interface to an ecological db.
Conference Proceeding
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Using a persistent system to construct a customised interface to an ecological db. In Interfaces to Database Systems: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS92), Glasgow, 1-3 July 1992 (225-243
New applications of information technology have increasingly sophisticated user interface requirements. Such interfaces are sometimes highly application specific and therefore...
Modelling ecological data.
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Ecological surveys generate large quantities of data; database technology has not yet reached its full
potential in this area. Here we investigate approaches to modelling ecol...