What is IOPI?
IOPI is the
International Organization for Plant Information.
This organisation came into being on September 20th, 1991, at a
meeting at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, hosted
by the Australian Biological Resources Study. Forty-nine botanists
from eleven countries participated. The genesis of the new
international organisation lay in discussions arising from an initial
proposal by Kew to establish, with a consortium of major herbaria,
a computerized taxonomic database - the Species Plantarum Project
(SPP) - and those held at Delphi, under the auspices of TDWG, in
October 1990, to consider the establishment of a Global Plant Species
Information System (GPSIS).
Latest update on IOPI activities.
- IOPI Documents and reports
- Information Systems Committee (ISC)
- For some demos of hypermedia taxonomic information see:
- The following information services may be of interest:
- General Information about World Wide Web:
IOPI maintains a regular news service for members, and anyone else interested.
To register for electronic news about IOPI contact
Dr David G. Green.
Submit items of news relevant to IOPI by email to
iopi@life.anu.edu.au. The moderator is Catherine Zellweger, of
IOPI's
Information Systems Committee. Old distributed messages and other
information related to IOPI can be accessed via the Australian National University's
biogopher service for IOPI,
