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-====== ILDIS (International Legume Database and Information Service) ======
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+The ''ildis.org'' domain name will expire on 14th September 2027.
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+This means that the old ILDIS web-site will no longer be accessible using that domain.
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+If you or your organisation would like to take responsibility for the domain name
-Notes about DokuWiki
+before it disappears,
-  * [[:wiki:welcome|]]
+and provide services for botanists, scientists and others interested
-  * [[..wiki:dokuwiki|]]
+in the "legume" plant family **Fabaceae** (formerly known as **Leguminosae**),
-  * [[wiki:syntax|]]
+please let me know.
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+-- //[[Richard White <richard@ildis.org>]]//
+</WRAP>
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-This is the new ILDIS wiki,
+====== ILDIS (International Legume Database and Information Service) ======
-started on 17 June 2018,
-and currently under construction.
-August 2025:
+The pioneering //International Legume Database and Information Service// is no longer operating,
-The wiki is being moved into a wiki farm.
+and its database has been updated and is now part of :FIXME:.
+The [[https://ildis.org/index.shtml|original ILDIS web-site]] will remain available for some time,
+but will not be updated.
+The ''ildis,org'' domain name will disappear in September 2027 unless someone else takes it over,
+but the web-site may remain accessible at **[[https://ildis.rwhite.uk|ildis.rwhite.uk]]** for an extended period.
+Please let me know of any problems ([[richard@ildis.org|Richard White]]).
+===== 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 one of the first two or three Global Species Databases (GSDs) contributing to the [[https://catalogueoflife.org|Catalogue of Life]].
 ===== Copies of the ILDIS database =====
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 ==== Online database ====
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 Please let me know of any problems ([[richard@ildis.org|Richard White]]).
+==== Present and future ====
+<blockquote>
+"It makes sense that legumes, as one of the largest and most
+economically and ecologically important plant families, were the
+focus of some of the earliest pioneering work to develop online
+species databases and information systems from the 1980s
+onwards, notably through the International Legume Database
+& Information System (ILDIS). However, despite this early
+prominence of legumes in biodiversity informatics, in
+recent years it has become increasingly clear that a new and
+more modern database and species information system for
+legumes is required. In a paper produced under the umbrella
+of the Legume Phylogeny Working Group ({{::towards_a_new_online_species-information_system_fo.pdf|Bruneau et al. 2019}}) ((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. doi:10.1071/SB19025))
+the history of legume databasing and ILDIS is reviewed, the
+value of taxon-centric information systems is discussed in
+relation to wider global biodiversity databasing initiatives,
+and exemplar species information systems for other
+taxonomic groups are surveyed. This survey provides the
+foundations and a road-map for a much-needed new online
+species information system for legumes. We very much
+encourage this new initiative to reinstate legumes at the
+forefront of species informatics; we endorse the on-going
+value of taxon-centric information systems and encourage the
+development of a system that can interface efficiently with key
+global taxonomic, specimen and trait databases; we look forward
+to a state-of-the-art new legume species information system.
+"This proposed new legume information system will be
+useful for myriad sub-disciplines in science, with trait
+details of various sorts compiled into a searchable and
+expandable database, including information on economic
+uses and ethnobotany of legumes.
+..."
+<cite>
+-- Colin Hughes, Ashley Egan, Daniel Murphy and Tadashi Kajita
+{{::advances_in_legume_systematics_13.pdf|Advances in Legume Systematics 13}},
+Australian Systematic Botany, 2019, 32, i–iii
+(https://doi.org/10.1071/SBv32n6_ED)
+</cite>
+</blockquote>
 ===== References =====