Nicolson, Nicola
Job TitleSenior Developer, Science Applications
DepartmentCorporate & Business Services
SectionIT
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 1998
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons), Botany, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, 1995
MSc, Computer Science, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1997
Role
Solutions Architect in Science Applications section, with responsibility for design of science and horticulture IT systems.
Scopes and defines information systems component of science projects; contributes to definition of technical architecture; provides design overview for Kew and collaborative software development projects, in particular those associated with the management and dissemination of scientific name information.
Leads the technical development of the International Plant Names Index project (IPNI).
Projects
- electronic Plant Information Centre (ePIC)
(project completed 2004) - International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
- Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
(project ended 2008) - Monocot Checklist-Project Completed
- OpenUp! – Opening up the European natural history heritage for Europeana
- Plant Micromorphology Bibliographic Database
- Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation 2010- A working list of known plant species.
Selected Recent Publications
Nicolson, N., Paton, A., Croft, J., Macklin, J., Morris, P., Whitbread, G. &Gandhi, K. (2011). Advancing the International Plant Names Index (IPNI). IBC 2011 - XVIII International Botanical congress, 23-30/07/2011, Melbourne, Australia.
Knapp, S., Paton, A., Challis, K. & Nicolson, N. (2010) “Run for your lives! End of the World!” - Electronic publication of new plant names. Taxon 59(4): 1009-1010.
