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Guidelines for submitting both descriptive and taxonomic data can be found at <a href="http://about.worldfloraonline.org/documents">http://about.worldfloraonline.org/documents</a></p></div></div><div class="inner"><div class="box"><h1 id="descriptive">Content data</h1><p class="justified"> Content data (descriptions, images, distributions, etc.) need to be linked to a name known to the portal. For the portal to recognize a name, it needs to use a WFO identifier (WFOID). All plant names are assigned WFOIDs by the WFO Consortium. For example, the WFOID for Solanum tuberosum L. is wfo-0001031908. A WFOID must be used in the taxonID column in the core Taxon CSV file of the Darwin Core Archive. Note: The term taxonID is a Darwin Core term used to identify a name, not a taxonomic concept. </p><p class="justified"> Any content data is provided to WFO by using the Darwin Core Archive Descriptions extension, as defined by GBIF. Please refer to the WFO Content Data Contributors Guide which can be found at <a href="http://about.worldfloraonline.org/documents">http://about.worldfloraonline.org/documents</a>. </p></div></div><div class="inner"><div class="box"><h1 id="taxonomic">Taxonomic resources</h1><p class="justified"> A taxonomic resource file updates or extends the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone and must also be provided in Darwin Core Archive format. The guidelines for submitting taxonomic backbone data are provided in the WFO Taxonomic Backbone Data Contributors Guide, which can be found at <a href="http://about.worldfloraonline.org/documents">http://about.worldfloraonline.org/documents</a>. Like for descriptive data, each name must have a WFOID assigned by the WFO Consortium. <p>Please <a alt="WFO email" href="mailto:contact@worldfloraonline.org?subject=World Flora Organization Question" class="contactLinkOverlay">contact</a> WFO if you are interested to provide updates for a plant group.</p></p></div></div><div class="inner"><div class="box"><h1 id="nameMatching">Name Matching Process</h1><p class="justified"><p> The standardisation of plant names is a critical step in various fields of biology, including biodiversity, biogeography, and vegetation research. The <b>WorldFlora</b> R package (Kindt 2020) matches lists of plant names using the static copy of the World Flora Online (WFO) taxonomic backbone available <a href="http://www.worldfloraonline.org/downloadData">here</a>. </p><p> WorldFlora offers a straightforward pipeline for semi鈥恆utomatic plant name checking. For the four test data sets (Kindt 2020), the success rate of credible name matches ranged from 94.7% to 99.9%. Package <b>RcmdrPlugin.WorldFlora</b> provides a graphical user interface for WorldFlora as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342657019_WORLDFLORA_User_Guide_for_Graphical_User_Interface">documented in this manual</a>. </p><p> Available at <a target="_blank" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora">https://cran.r-project.org/package=WorldFlora</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=RcmdrPlugin.WorldFlora">https://cran.r-project.org/package=RcmdrPlugin.WorldFlora</a></p><p> Kindt, R. 2020. 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