Welcome to GEIRS, an acronym for
the Global Ethnomedicinal Information Retrieval System. The
data archived in GEIRS represent a synthesis of information
from participating researchers. GEIRS
was developed by Michael
B. Thomas, Centre for International
Ethnomedicinal Education and Research at the University of Florida
under the direction of Dr. Howard Beck, IFAS Information Technologies.
Many people have contributed to its development.
GEIRS is an object-oriented database developed
to archive and retrieve information on medicinal plants used
by traditional cultures from around the globe. One can browse
the database to retrieve plants by common name, scientific name
or local ethnic name. Each plant record contains a large variety
of data for the plant, as well as digital color photographs,
audio, video, and botanical illustrations. Publications for
each plant entry can be printed from the plant database.
GEIRS is currently maintained by the Centre for International
Ethnomedicinal Education and Research. For information concerning
project collaboration ,data collection, data processing, digitization
and maintainence of data in GEIRS contact geirs@cieer.org
At the present time, the following individuals
work on the development of GEIRS and research using it:
• Michael
B. Thomas, CIEER
• Dr. Howard Beck, IFAS
Information Technologies - University of Florida
• Dr. Brad Bennett,
Florida International University
• Summer Austin,
Portland Environmental Protection Association - Portland, Jamaica
