The International Compositae Alliance (TICA) is pleased to announce a new Global Compositae Database that has been developed with generous support from the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). From 28 to 31 October 2019, nine members of TICA (Fig. 1) met at Flanders Marine Institute in Oostende, Belgium for a planning and strategy workshop to outline the organization of this new taxonomic database. This database will replace the Global Compositae Checklist (GCC), which has been hosted by Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research since 2009. Since its inception, the GCC had been graciously maintained and updated by Dr. Christina Flann. TICA is deeply grateful to Dr. Flann for her generous service to the Compositae community throughout the last ten years.

This new Global Compositae Database is a community‐led resource that will provide authoritative and comprehensive taxonomic data and will be updated and edited by the newly created Compositae Working Group (CWG). The database is hosted at the TICA website (www.compositae.org) and its user interface is friendly and provides numerous features in addition to accurate taxonomic data for the most species‐rich family of plants on Earth. In addition to fundamental nomenclatural data, this resource can link to other databases, provide distribution maps for taxa, store original publications from taxonomic literature and photographs.

We encourage you to visit the database at http://www.compositae.org to explore the features and functionality. If you or your colleagues are interested in joining the CWG as editors, please contact cwg@compositae.org and indicate your willingness to contribute, the taxonomic group you will be curating (subfamily, tribe, genus, etc.), and your professional affiliation. Similarly, if you or your institution uses or has used the Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) in the past please contact the Compositae Working Group cwg@compositae.org to update your links to the new database.

国际菊科植物联合会（TICA）很高兴宣布一个新的全球菊科植物数据库，该数据库是在世界海洋生物名录（WoRMS）的大力支持下开发的。从2019年10月28日至31日，TICA的9名成员（图1）在比利时Oostende的佛兰德海洋研究所举行了计划和策略研讨会，概述了这个新的分类数据库的组织。该数据库将取代自2009年以来由Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research托管的全球菊科清单（GCC）。自成立以来，GCC由Christina Flann博士精心维护和更新。TICA非常感谢Flann博士在过去十年中对Compositae社区的慷慨服务。

这个新的全球菊科数据库是一个社区主导的资源，将提供权威和全面的分类数据，并将由新成立的菊科工作组（CWG）进行更新和编辑。该数据库托管在TICA网站（www.compositae.org）上，其用户界面友好，除了提供针对地球上物种最多的植物家族的准确分类学数据外，还提供了许多功能。除了基本术语数据外，该资源还可以链接到其他数据库，提供分类单元的分布图，存储分类学文献和照片的原始出版物。

我们鼓励您访问http://www.compositae.org上的数据库以探索其功能。如果您或您的同事有兴趣加入CWG担任编辑，请联系cwg@compositae.org并指出您的贡献意愿，您将要策划的分类组（亚科，部落，属等）以及您的专业从属关系。同样，如果您或您的机构过去使用或曾经使用过全球菊科清单（GCC），请联系菊科工作组cwg@compositae.org更新您到新数据库的链接。