Delivering a name-server for biodiversity information

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Challenges in developing medicinal plant databases for sharing ethnopharmacological knowledge

“…Maintenance of digital data in long term basis is associated with many challenges including evolution of hardware and software, and the risk of systems becoming obsolete (Canhos, 2004). Since maintenance in long-term basis is costly (WHO, 1993) and possible only in major institutions and government agencies (Hussey et al, 2006), aggregation of information stored in different databases will become one of the options.…”