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Australian Systematic Botany Society
and
Society of Australian Systematic Biologists

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Joint National Conferences
Adelaide '97

Associated Society: Australasian Mycological Society

28 September - 3 October, 1997

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Software in Systematics Programme

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Theatre Presentations and ad hoc Demonstrations

12:30 - 4:10 p.m. (SUNDAY SESSION)

7:30 - 10:30 pm (TUESDAY SESSION)

Ngapartji Cooperative Multimedia Centre,
211 Rundle Street

12.30 p.m. (Sun)

7:30 p.m (Tues)

Theatre presentations (Programme below) and individual demonstrations (listed below) will be run concurrently. Registrants are encouraged to wander between the two. Please note that the theatre presentations on the Tuesday evening start at 7.30 p.m. sharp.

THEATRE PRESENTATIONS (CONCURRENT WITH AD HOC DEMONSTRATIONS)

ASSEMBLING AND DISSEMINATING DISPARATE AND DISPERSED DATA

12:50 p.m. (Sun)

7:30 p.m (Tues)

Keith Houston
[or Steve Shattuck]
PLATYPUS: A database package designed for taxon based, faunal work
1:15 p.m. (Sun)

7:55 p.m. (Tues)

Nick Lander MAX - personal computer software for managing species data.
1:40 p.m. (Sun)

8:20 p.m. (Tues)

Jim Croft The redevelopment of the Australian Plant Name Index
2:05 p.m.(Sun)

8:45 pm (Tues)

Alan Brooks

Alex Chapman

The National Herbarium of New South Wales Information System prototype: turning data into useable information
A prototype for the integrated Western Australian Herbarium flora information system
2:30 p.m. (Sun)

9:10 p.m. (Tues)

Karen Wilson The IOPI Global Plant Checklist in action

TWO INTERACTIVE IDENTIFICATION TOOLS

2:50 p.m.(Sun)

9:30 p.m. (Tues)

Nick Lander and Alex Chapman Interactive identification and information retrieval with DELTA and INTKEY
3:20 p.m. (Sun)

10:00 p.m. (Tues)

Kevin Thiele Lucid - Contemporary Identification Tools for Biology

*AD HOC DEMONSTRATIONS
(CAFE FOYER AND STUDIO 1: CONCURRENT WITH THEATRE PRESENTATION)

(Also may be able to be viewed at convenience of each demonstrator in
Huxley Computer Suite, Physics Building, on Tuesday, Wednesday and possibly Thursday afternoon)

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Botanical Latin Translation

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EUCLID

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[The National Herbarium of New South Wales Information System]

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A prototype for an integrated flora information system

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An Interactive Key to the Western Australian Flora

image Croft, Jim R.

The redevelopment of the Australian Plant Name Index

image Crosby, Trevor K., John S. Dugdale and Dominic J. Thoreau

(Not available for Sunday session) Images of primary type specimens of New Zealand Lepidoptera on the Web and CD-ROM: new access to collection information

image Dauncey, E.A., Jackson, M., Rayner T.G.J. and Shah-Smith, D.A.

A computerised identification system for poisonous plants and fungi

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[The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew's Index Kewensis on CD ROM: a index to protologues of the Worlds higher plant species brought into the electronic era]

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Digital Technology and its role in Biological Imaging at CSIRO, Entomology

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PLATYPUS: A database package designed for taxon based, faunal work

image Lander, N.S.

MAX - personal computer software for managing species data

image Lander, N.S.

An Interactive Key to the Western Australian Threatened Flora

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SPLUS: an example of a statistical software package

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"Wattle": an information system for sustainable utilisation of Acacia

image Morrison, David A.

[Some phylogenetic software packages]

image Nelson, Gareth and Pauline Ladiges

(Not available for Sunday session) TASS: a tool for interpreting cladograms

image Simon B.K., W.D. Clayton, P.D. Bostock, D. Sharp and W.A. Smith

Interactive keys to the grasses of the Moreton Pastoral District, south-eastern Queensland

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Lucid - Contemporary Identification Tools for Biology

image Wilson K.L.

The IOPI Global Plant Checklist in action


Many thanks to KE Software
for its generous sponsorship of this symposium
and to members of HISCOM and their herbaria
who have helped considerably in presenting the
Software in Systematics Programme


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