[SEEK-Taxon] RE: GBIF and TCS-LC for data exchange

[Jerry Cooper]

I agree with Paul. I don't have to to proact on Wikis so I'm in favour
of an email list. 
I am also in 'reactive mode' at the moment (since last August!) - and
will continue to be until mid May.
Jerry

>>> Paul Kirk <p.kirk at cabi.org> 28/02/2005 11:50:05 p.m. >>>
Speaking as a member of Rich's minority ...

I do things in one of two ways - proactive and reactive. The former
tasks are mainly those connected with keeping a job and earning a salary
and some of these spill outside the 9-5 contracted hours. The latter
slot in between the proactive tasks at any time when I feel motivated to
react and Taxacom is a good example of one of these reactive processes.
I know less than nothing about Wiki's but I feel they are a proactive
system and as such I am unable to participate. I accept that a Wiki is
more structured than a simple email list but the latter is what I can
work with.

So, in the attachment sent out by Donald which I reacted to and read I
would suggest 'subsp' as the Rank code for subspecies - ssp is easily
confused with spp and I think it's possibly an abbreviation of the
French word for subspecies ;-)

Paul
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Pyle
To: Donald Hobern; G. Hagedorn; Nozomi Ytow; franz at nceas.ucsb.edu;
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Cc: sci.staff at gbif.org; ict.staff at gbif.org; Roger Hyam;
gbif-dadi at roles.circa.gbif.net; gbif-ecat at roles.circa.gbif.net 
Sent: 28/02/05 10:03
Subject: RE: GBIF and TCS-LC for data exchange


Hi Donald (and others),

Many thanks for your recent note -- I am very glad to see this issue
being
"nudged" forward by you and GBIF (at the very least, it helps me get
off
my
duff and catch up with the discussion as it currently stands).

> We have contracted Roger Hyam (roger at hyam.net) to act as GBIF
Taxonomic
> Name/Concept Lead Developer.  He will coordinate this development
> on behalf of the GBIF Secretariat and I would be most grateful if
you
would provide
> him with all the assistance you can.

Welcome, Roger!  Please feel free to contact me any time if I can be
of
any
assistance whatsoever.

> We welcome any suggestions.

It would be nice if we could collectively select a single forum for
discussion on the issues related to the integration of LC and TCS.
Perhaps
I am old-fashioned, but I still tend to prefer an email discussion
list
(with a web-accessible archive of postings and a designated location
for
file uploads), over the Wiki method.  As I suspect I am among the
minority
in having this view, I am quite willing to continue working with one
of
the
Wikis instead of an email list.  However, if Wiki it is to be, I think
it
would be tremendously more efficient for making progress if we could
designate ONE Wiki as the location where the LC/TCS integration issues
are
discussed.  I do not know enough about the various options to have an
opinion about which of the candidate Wikis I prefer, so I'll leave
that
for
others to decide.  But please -- my life is complicated and disjointed
and
schizophrenic enough as it is -- I would very much prefer not to have
to
monitor more than one Wiki for this discussion.

Aloha,
Rich

Richard L. Pyle, PhD
Database Coordinator for Natural Sciences
Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum
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