====== Notes on the history of ILDIS ======

  * Anne Bruneau prepared a comprehensive history of legume database projects, including ILDIS and its descendants for ALS13 (Advances in Legume Systematics 13), initially as a Google document "//Position Paper for ALS 13: Towards/Developing a legume systematics portal//"((https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MZVH4kTJz3LRChcRKe61TulDcMfhwowE7yfUm0Oidbo/)) c. 2018--2019
    * Snapshot of this Google document on 09/12/2025: ({{pub:notes:legume_portal_als13_paper.pdf|PDF}}) ({{pub:notes:legume_portal_als13_paper.odt|ODT}})
    * Published version:  Bruneau A, Borges LM, Allkin R, Egan AN, de la Estrella M, Javadi F, Klitgaard B, Miller JT, Murphy DJ, Sinou C, Vatanparast M, Zhang R (2019) //Towards a new online species-information system for legumes//. Australian Systematic Botany **32**(5–6), 495–518. [Paper compiled under the umbrella of the Legume Phylogeny Working Group, LPWG]. doi:10.1071/SB19025
  * Refer to the [[pub:bib:]]

==== History ====

According to Peter Brewer's PhD project first year report (November 2001), 
ILDIS (Bisby //et al//. 2000, 2001) 
began in 1985 (Zarucchi //et al//., 1993) 
and was (at version 5 in 2001) "nearing completion". 

The 5th ILDIS Workshop was held at Reading (17-18 November 2005) 
immediately following 
the 7th UK Legume Workshop held at Kew (15 November 2005). 

==== Descendants ====

ILDIS was of the first two or three(?) GSDs contributing to the Species 2000 Catalogue of Life.  

Burnett J., IOPI: genesis of GPSIS? 
In: Bisby, F.A., Russell, G.F. & Pankhurst, R.J., eds., 
//Designs for a Global Plant Species Information System//, 
Oxford University Press, 1994, 334-342
(IOPI could be viewed as a step between ILDIS and CoL.) 
[book at 8SG]