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Currently, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 30% of plant species in the United States face extinction in the next 50 years. The data and information provided by PlantCollections.org will be crucial to supporting preservation efforts and promoting biodiversity. The Chicago Botanic Garden, in conjunction with 29 partners, needed to build an internet application to improve the process of collecting plants and address conservation issues, contribute to education and enable research into complex biological relationships. Pathfinder leveraged Open Source software and standards to address these issues without the overhead of software licensing fees. The solution leverages Ruby on Rails, Ajax and other Open Source components to quickly build web applications that are easily extended to meet growing demand and end user requirements.

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