Biodiversity Informatics
Developing software and digitising content for Kew's online databases, including Plants of the World Online.
Team lead: Robert Turner
We develop software for Kew's Plants of the World Online Portal (POWOP), International Plant Names Index (IPNI) and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants.
We also digitise content for POWOP, which includes marking up, formatting, names matching, plus the creation and management of new content for species pages.
Team members
Senior technical lead
Robert Turner
Lead bioinformatician
Vitaly Voloshin
Lead Developers
Nicholas Black
Malcolm Stone
Lead developer web & CMS
David Bishop
Developer
Patrick Cox
Senior Content editor
Rafaël Govaerts
Content digitisers
Laura Rozario
Content editors
Helen Hartley
Jonathan Krieger
Emma Wrankmore
Seed Bank Data Resources Manager
Udyangani Liu
Seed Bank Data Resources Officer
Olivia Mitrovits
ICMS Training Lead
Silvia Cera