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INFORMATION SYSTEMS SURVEY 
INDEX TO PLANT CHROMOSOME NUMBERS 
The Plant Chromosome Numbers pro j ect is designed to keep 
track of publication of new counts of chromosome numbers in 
the world's botanical literature and to bring them together 
into a consolidated annual listing. Journals are monitored by 
a group of about 15 volunteer botanists from the United States, 
Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan and Denmark. Each 
covers a specific list of journals. 
When the botanist monitoring a journal finds chromosome 
number data, he extracts the data and submits it with a bibli¬ 
ographic reference for editing, collation and typing. The data 
include the identification of the species and the chromosome 
count. 
After all data for one year have been edited, organized and 
formatted, they are typed for publication by the Department of 
Agriculture in Ottawa, Canada, using a terminal linked via tele¬ 
phone line to a general purpose, time-sharing computer. The 
system being used at present for data capture is the IBM Datatext 
This method of data conversion provides both a machine readable 
file and print-outs in final form ready for publication. The 
print-outs are sent to Utrecht for publication by the Inter¬ 
national Bureau for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature of the 
International Association for Plant Taxonomy. It is hoped 
that data for successive years can be merged by computer 
to produce cumulative indexes.--Harriet R. Meadow. 
