Pl@ntUsethe wiki on useful plants

Michel CHAUVETINRA – AMAP, Montpellier (France)

Equipe-projet IMEDIA

http://www.plantnet-project.org/

http://www.plantnet-project.org/

a huge number of useful plants: ca. 50,000 species

involving scientific communities outside botany (agronomists, foresters, technologists, chemists, economists...)

very heterogenous data

urgency to mobilize data for sustainable agriculture

Some challenges

cultivated plants, but also plants collected in the wild

diverse uses: food plants, medicinals, spices, forest trees, forages, fiber plants, dye plants, ornamentals, auxiliary plants for agriculture and environment, and "new" uses such as model plants or genetic resources.

many types of data : botany, cultivation, technology, products, common names, history...

Scope

wiki concept adapted to the management of heterogenous data (no need to define in advance how data will be structured)

Mediawiki already implemented on the Biowikifarm wikifarm

a powerful software able to host millions of pages

developed by Wikipedia, and friendly to its users

computer update ensured by an important community

Why Mediawiki?

"I don't want anybody to modify my data!" but Wikipedia shows that there is a "virtuous spiral"

leading to quality articles in the USA, many scientists have come to wikis and

Wikipedia; Encyclopedia of Life displays Wikipedia articles

Organisation is crucial. A wiki is a simple tool that can be managed in different ways!

contributions are immediately visible, and easily referenced by Google

Scientists and wikis

Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license for texts and images

the best guarantee for a long term maintenance of data and their capitalisation

moral right of authors always acknowledged Wikimedia Commons offers a good legal context

(and a lot of images) problem not solved for orphan publications

Legal aspects

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Moringa_oleifera

differences with Wikipedia possibility to put articles signed by an author priority given to primary and encyclopedic sources :

Vilmorin act as a portal to other good sites, instead of

copying non validated data host orphan databases: PROTA

Pl@ntUse choices

http://uses.plantnet-project.org/fr/Carotte_(Vilmorin-Andrieux,_1904)http://uses.plantnet-project.org/fr/Moringa_oleifera

collaboration with Wikimedia

upload of images on Wikimedia Commons, then imported by a bot

text cleaning of books on Wikisource

Pl@ntUse choices

Join us at Pl@ntUse. Only an important community will deal with challenges.

or create your own wiki at Biowikifarm.

Possible contributions : toutes, mais en particulier : inventories description and history of cultivars (photos...) orphan databases

Conclusion

http://uses.plantnet-project.org/fr/Accueilhttp://biowikifarm.net/meta/

in French: http://uses.plantnet-project.org/fr/Accueil

in English : http://uses.plantnet-project.org/en/Main_Page

michel.chauvet@cirad.fr

Addresses

http://uses.plantnet-project.org/fr/Accueilhttp://uses.plantnet-project.org/en/Main_Page

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