People
Jackson, Mark
| Job Title | Applications Development Manager |
|---|---|
| Department | Information Services |
| Section | |
| Science Teams |
Monocots II: Commelinids Large-Scale Syntheses |
| Joined Kew | 1982 |
| Foreign Language(s) |
Qualifications & Appointments
BA (Hons), History, Leicester University, 1979.
Role
Manager of informatics projects, and information systems development and maintenance for science.
Manager of unit providing information systems and information systems support for science and interpretation. Scoping and definition of IS components of projects; creation of databases and interfaces for data management, analysis and dissemination; maintenance of the same; development of strategy and strategic reviews; management of information projects. Manager of electronic Plant Information Centre project; member of African Plants Initiative Technical Advisory Group; member of EDIT Informatics Committee and participant in WP5; project member of CATE (Creating A Taxonomic E-science); member of Biodiversity Heritage Library group.
Projects
Araceae Taxonomic Knowledge Base
Digitising the Specimens and Archive of A.F.G. Kerr, Pioneering Botanist in Thailand
Electronic Cataloguing and Imaging of Monocot Type Specimens
electronic Plant Information Centre (ePIC)
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)
Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation - Global Checklists
The Biological Collection Access Service for Europe (BioCASE)