[Taxacom] Index Nominum Genericorum (ING) on New Web Server

[Farr, Ellen]

Index Nominum Genericorum (ING) has moved to a new Web server which
should eliminate the down time and slow response problems. 

The new URL is http://botany.si.edu/ing/ .

 

     The original purpose of ING was to provide a resource for
discovering whether a generic name had already been published in any
group covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. 

     It is no longer possible to keep ING completely up to date with
newly published names in all groups, so the ING search form also has a
"distributed search" that looks for generic names of plants in other
online resources.  The results are presented on a single screen along
with the ING entry. 

     Our goal is to limit the information returned by a search to
generic names only to make comparison between sources easier. Please let
us know if you encounter problems or have information that will help us
improve this service.

 

     If you are linking to ING on your Web site or have a link that
passes generic names to ING, please update your links accordingly. The
old 'Ravenel.si.edu' server will redirect to the new site for several
months at least. However, you should change links that pass names from
(for example):

http://Ravenel.si.edu/botany/ing/ingsearch.cfm?searchword=achillea

to:

http://botany.si.edu/ing/ingsearch.cfm?searchword=achillea.

 

Smithsonian Department of Botany Web Site

     The Department of Botany (Smithsonian Institution) Web site also
has a new address and a new look. Visit http://botany.si.edu/ .and you
will find checklists and floras for Hawaii, The Marquesas Islands,
Myanmar, the Washington-Baltimore area, Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands, and the Guiana Shield. Nomenclatural resources include Index
Nominum Genericorum (ING), a list and details for generic or specific
names considered confusable under the Botanical Code, and a searchable
database of conservation/rejection proposals and their disposition for
scientific names of plants. A search feature will look for a generic
name in 13 of our on-line research database and provide a list of links
for all of the species in that genus. Check back often. The new center
column of the home page will change frequently and will announce new
presentations and provide a quick link to selected features.