ILDIS (International Legume Database and Information Service) [ILDIS International Legume Database & Information Service]
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Copies of the ILDIS database
Static web pages
Online database
Original web site
Present and future
References
Si
ildis.org
n'est pas le site web que vous recherchez, vous souhaiterez peut-être visiter
ILDYS.ORG
(Fondation ILDYS).
ILDIS (International Legume Database and Information Service)
This is the new ILDIS wiki,
started on 17 June 2018,
and currently under construction.
12 August 2025:
The wiki is being moved into a wiki farm.
Copies of the ILDIS database
Static web pages
ILDIS World Database of Legumes
version 10.38, published by Alice Software
Database last revised on 9th July 2010
Content © International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS), 2006–2013
Web page last revised: 20.01.2013 14:57:08
This copy consists of thousands of web pages for the taxa and various indexes,
which can be browsed in many ways, but not easily converted into another format.
Online database
Original web site
The
original ILDIS web-site
will remain available for some time,
and some pages will gradually be transferred to this wiki.
Other pages will be identified as part of an archive,
which will be preserved as a historical record,
and will not be updated.
I will endeavour to ensure that the main URLs do not change,
so that you can continue to bookmark
Please let me know of any problems (
Richard White
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Present and future
“It makes sense that legumes, as one of the largest and most
economically and ecologically important plant families, were the
focus of some of the earliest pioneering work to develop online
species databases and information systems from the 1980s
onwards, notably through the International Legume Database
& Information System (ILDIS). However, despite this early
prominence of legumes in biodiversity informatics, in
recent years it has become increasingly clear that a new and
more modern database and species information system for
legumes is required. In a paper produced under the umbrella
of the Legume Phylogeny Working Group (
Bruneau et al. 2019
1)
the history of legume databasing and ILDIS is reviewed, the
value of taxon-centric information systems is discussed in
relation to wider global biodiversity databasing initiatives,
and exemplar species information systems for other
taxonomic groups are surveyed. This survey provides the
foundations and a road-map for a much-needed new online
species information system for legumes. We very much
encourage this new initiative to reinstate legumes at the
forefront of species informatics; we endorse the on-going
value of taxon-centric information systems and encourage the
development of a system that can interface efficiently with key
global taxonomic, specimen and trait databases; we look forward
to a state-of-the-art new legume species information system.
“This proposed new legume information system will be
useful for myriad sub-disciplines in science, with trait
details of various sorts compiled into a searchable and
expandable database, including information on economic
uses and ethnobotany of legumes.
…”
– Colin Hughes, Ashley Egan, Daniel Murphy and Tadashi Kajita
Advances in Legume Systematics 13
Australian Systematic Botany, 2019, 32, i–iii
References
ILDIS publications
Notes on the history of ILDIS
ILDIS annotated bibliography
Roskov Y.R., Bisby F.A., Zarucchi J.L., Schrire B.D. & White R.J. (eds.)
ILDIS World Database of Legumes: draft checklist, version 10
[published June 2006, but CD shows November 2005 date].
ILDIS, Reading, UK, 2006
[CD-Rom: ISBN 0 7049 1248 1]
(also available here at
1)
Bruneau A, Borges LM, Allkin R, Egan AN, de la Estrella M, Javadi F, Klitgaard B, Miller JT, Murphy DJ, Sinou C, Vatanparast M, Zhang R (2019)
Towards a new online species-information system for legumes
. Australian Systematic Botany
32
(5–6), 495–518. doi:10.1071/SB19025
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