Web Commission (2007-2013)

Chair:        G. Venturella, Palermo

Secretary:        G. Domina, Palermo

Members:        C. Blanché, Barcelona
                       P. Bareka, Patras
                       J. M. Iriondo, Madrid
                       S. Onofri, Viterbo
                       R. M. Ros, Murcia
                       N. Surano, Palermo
                       E. Vitek, Wien

This commission was established during the 1995 OPTIMA meeting in Sevilla. As a first step towards integrating available information resources, the OPTIMA WWW site was created by the Secretariate, the BGBM in Berlin has offered to initially house and administer the site. In collaboration with other organizations and projects, it is planned to promote access to:

• Established phytotaxonomy-related databases relevant to the Mediterranean area. This can include all publicly available data sources - from structured word processor files held by individual researchers, to institutional database, to databases accessible via Internet.

• Taxonomic computing expert resources. This is to identify companies and individuals who have experience in the design and implementation of botanical databases.

• Botanical Database projects for the Mediterranean area. This directory is to list projects which are in the planning stage, or which have not yet produced publicly available data.

This page last updated 13 October, 2007.