[seek-kr] taxon and SMS/KR linkages

[Matt Jones]

Mark, Shawn, Bertram, Rich,

The attached note from Dave Thau to the taxon group is about linkages to 
SMS/KR.  Informative reading, and I thought you might want to reply.  I 
think its really important to consolidate approaches used in the taxon 
group with those used for other data integration tasks.  Although the 
taxon group considers their information different from other data and 
metadata, I really think it needs to be treated in a uniform way with 
other aspects.  For example, its clear in some sense that taxa are just 
one aspect of the measurement context -- space and time are other 
aspects -- we need to be able to reason and integrate across these 
domains uniformly.  Thoughts?

Matt

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