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Quentin GROOM
Botany and Information Technology

CONTACT : Quentin Groom  +32 2 896.60.53

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

I work on the use of information technology in the analysis and dissemination of scientific information.

Current projects include :

• pro-iBiosphere
  Coordination and policy development in preparation for a European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System. Our part of this project is to report on the current tools for digital taxonomy, their usage and future.
• EU-BON
  A project to build the European Biodiversity Observation Network. I will be testing biodiversity modeling tools
• i4life
  Creating global checklists of certain plant families to contribute to the Catalogue of Life
• An online checklist for the Flora of Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi
• A checklist of the currently accepted names of the vascular plants of these countires in the Congo Basin (http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/dataportal/flore-afrique-centrale/).
• Flora of Northumberland in the United Kingdom
  I have also a long standing interest in the flora of Northumberland in the United Kingdom, where I help study the local flora (www.floranortheast.org.uk, http://biowikifarm.net/v-ukcounty/web/).