IOPI Objectives

IOPI's Objectives

The International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI) is a voluntary collaborative organization of botanical and computer specialists, with institutional (Participating Centre) and Individual members drawn from many countries.

IOPI's objectives are:

To promote and prepare expeditiously a series of integrated, dispersed, computerized databases summarizing basic taxonomic information (bearing in mind the basic requirements of taxonomic research and opinion) on all kinds of plants in the world and their biological and other attributes (in particular, data relating to their utilization and conservation). [Plants are defined as those organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.]
To document the data in such ways as shall make them most readily accessible to users of all kinds, in all regions, and in such formats as shall seem most expedient to IOPI.
Thereafter, to maintain the data in an up-to-date form and to continue to make them accessible as above.

International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI), authorized WWW server Objectives page. K. Wilson (editor). Last modified: 8 November 1995