How to Participate
Lichenologists and mycologists being experts on ascomycetes are invited to participate in LIAS, a multi-authored Internet project. The underlying database application of the system is DiversityDescriptions, a component of the Diversity Workbench database suite.
There are two ways to participate in LIAS: as an author or as a reviser:
- Experts of certain taxonomic group of ascomycetes may act as LIAS authors for certain taxonomic group, having the responsibility alone or sharing with others. Public family data sets which are already maintained by one or a group of experts, are to be accessed under Data Entry and Revision.
For setting up a new family-level subproject, an author might select one of the families included in MYCONET Outline of Ascomycota. For setting up family specific characters templates, individual character states may be selected in the HTML descriptors form. In total, a set of nearly 1000, partly multi-state characters is provided for defining these family specific characters sets. For family specific data entry, HTML data submission templates are applied (http://www.lias.net/Taxa/DataEntry.html). LIAS authors should follow steps 1 to 5 in the Instructions for Participants. They may depose their data entries in a restricted working space without public access.
- Experts may also participate as revisers of LIAS data sets that have already been entered by other specialists. Revisions, i. e. additions and corrections, are possible by using the forms under Data Entry and Revision by following step 5 of the Instructions for Participants.
Descriptive data as stored in LIAS may be applied as database-generated natural language descriptions for monographic treatments, for interactive identification keys and in the context of phylogenetic studies of character evolution. For details about the provided copyright, modules and web interfaces, see also Impressum.