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

[Gregor Hagedorn]

After 2 years of Bob trying to convince me, I now like Wiki's (quite obvious 
from the LC discussions..). I have no problems with email lists, except that I 
believe for something like LC we do need some collaboration in *collecting* and 
*comparing* our knowledge about taxonomy and nomenclature. I find it rather 
interesting how little I understood about zoology, and I believe the LC 
discussion so far already did a good job of establishing some understanding 
between botanists and zoologist.

So please don't give up the "knowledge collection process" altogether. In my 
view, the current state of LC leaves a number of things open. Email list is 
great for reaching a consensus and making decisions, but not really for 
structuring complex knowledge, and the latter is what decisions should be based 
on.

Gregor----------------------------------------------------------
Gregor Hagedorn (G.Hagedorn at bba.de)
Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biosafety
Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA)
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