[SEEK-Taxon] Re: New Version of LinneanCore

Nozomi Ytow nozomi at biol.tsukuba.ac.jp
Tue Nov 30 08:16:53 PST 2004


S.Hinchcliffe> Are we ready to post Rich's version on Taxacom yet?

Not yet....
I have a difficulty to express hybrid formulas with the LC.
Is hybrid formula out of scope of LC?
We may need to allow to have multiple name-string part under
single CanonicalName to capture "Agrostis stolonifera L. x
Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf." or "Brassavola R. Br. x
Cattleya Lindl. x Laelia Lindl. x Sophronitis Lindl.".  It is
unnecessary to give a name to a hybrid, so hybrid formula
without unique name-string may appear in scientific publication.

And it may be prohibited question: do we need tokenized (strutured)
name as exchange schema, and why?   It is useful to search, so no
doubt it is necessary for database implementations, but why is it
necessary to exchange schema?   For easier implementation of XSLTs?

JMS
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Dr. Nozomi "James" Ytow
Institute of Biological Sciences / Gene research center
University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572
Japan



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