UM Plant Knowledge is knowledge-based system for plants in University of Malaya. It consists of POUM (ontology-driven Plant Ontology Universiti Malaya) and PlantViz (Plant Visualisation system).
POUM consists of plant data and image of 222 plant samples from 43 species of 42 genus for trees and 31 species of 28 genus for shrubs that were collected in few areas in University of Malaya in year 2017. Ontological data for plants and samples of trees and shrubs is then integrated into the PlantViz. PlantViz provides a graphical user interface that enable users to query the POUM and a graphical viewer to display the results of the query in a form of network graph. The relationships between the data were shown in visualisation form that enables the users to infer the knowledge and correlation between the data easily.
This UM Plant Knowledge is suitable for the expert users such as Botanists and Researchers and also the novice users, with or without computer skills.