Biodiversitätsinformatik / Biodiversity Informatics Botanischer Garten and Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem

CDEFD Publications

Project report to the European Commission

Berendsohn, W. G. 1997: A Common Datastructure for European Floristic Databases (CDEFD). Pp. 251-253 in: Hoeveler, A. & Cresti, M. (ed.), Biotechnology (1992-1994), Final Report Vol. 1. Luxembourg. [Preprint under http://www.bgbm.org/cdefd/FinalReport/]

Biological objects - the model's framework

Berendsohn, W. G., Anagnostopoulos, A., Jakupovic, J., Nimis, P. L. & Valdés, B. 1996. A Framework for Biological Information Models. In: Valdés, B. & Silvestre, S. (ed.), Proceedings of the VIII OPTIMA meeting. Lagascalia 19: 667-672. [Preprint: http://www.bgbm.org/cdefd/objects/]

The collection model ("CDEFD Model")

Berendsohn, W. G., Anagnostopoulos, A., Hagedorn, G., Jakupovic, J., Nimis, P.L. & Valdés, B.(1997): The CDEFD Information Model for Biological Collections. [Final draft: http://www.bgbm.org/CDEFD/CollectionModel/cdefd.htm]. 
The model has been redesigned and was published in Taxon in 1999: 
Berendsohn, W. G., Anagnostopoulos, A., Hagedorn, G., Jakupovic, J., Nimis, P. L., Valdés, B., Güntsch, A., Pankhurst, R. J. & White, R. J. (1999):  A comprehensive reference model for biological collections and surveys. Taxon 48: 511-562.

Biological studies, example Karyology

Berendsohn, W. G., Greilhuber, J., Anagnostopoulos, A., Bedini, G., Jakupovic, J., Nimis, P.L. & Valdés, B. (1996): A comprehensive datamodel for karyological databases. Plant Syst. Evol. 205: 85-98.

Details: Taxonomic identification

Meyer, H., Berendsohn, W. G. & Elankovan, S. (1996): Taxonomic Identification within the CDEFD Information Model. Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Workshop "Disseminating Biodiversity Information", Amsterdam, 25. - 27. 3. 1996. [http://www.bgbm.org/cdefd/identifications/title.htm]

Details: Person teams

Elankovan, S., Berendsohn, W. G. & Meyer, H. (1996): Person Teams in the CDEFD and IOPI Models: An Implementation. Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Workshop "Disseminating Biodiversity Information", Amsterdam, 25. - 27. 3. 1996. [http://www.bgbm.org/CDEFD/PersonTeams/Title.htm]

This project was succeeded by "BioCISE Resource Identification"

Further links and literature references for collection models: http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/acc/Referenc.htm

This page last updated Aug. 23, 1999.