The document discusses different methods for capturing information from existing manuscripts, such as printed floras, and making dichotomous keys available online. It describes marking up text with XML to structure information like species descriptions. It also explains how tools like Lucid Phoenix and DELTA/INTKEY can be used to convert written keys into interactive online keys by importing text files. The document recommends having information in a database or structured with XML to make it more usable and suggesting images could help differentiate similar species.

1. From Floras to Interactive Keys Patricia Malcolm

3. Capturing existing information Printed volumes Word doc. Mark-up XML XSLT Database OCR

4. Original document The formatting in the document is used to first mark-up paragraph level information & then character level information using MSWord macros & MSWord Styles.

5. Marking-up

6. Marking-up Accepted Synonym Description Distribution Ecology Notes Paragraphs Genus Habitat Altitude Country FZ country Division Author Species Parenthetical Author Literature reference Local references

7. XML layout

8. Lucid Phoenix FZ online DELTA - INTKEY

9. DB holding dichotomous keys http://www.kew.org/efloras/search.do

10. Keys online rt

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16. Lucid Phoenix Text file Lucid Importer Lucid Builder Lucid Player http://lion.rbgkew.org.uk/~dk02kg/phoenix/keys.html

17. DELTA - INTKEY The Genus Croton in Madagascar and the Comoro Is. A. Radcliffe-Smith Text file

18. DELTA - INTKEY The Genus Croton in Madagascar and the Comoro Is. A. Radcliffe-Smith Text file

19. DELTA - INTKEY The Genus Croton in Madagascar and the Comoro Is. A. Radcliffe-Smith Text file

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22. DELTA - INTKEY Database Text files DELTA INTKEY C:eltarotonroton

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27. Thanks to: Photograph: © Gerald D. Carr Kehan Harman Stuart Cable Don Kirkup Rogier de Kok Petra Hoffmann Alan Radcliffe-Smith Paul Berry (U. of Michigan – Herbarium)

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