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

[Kennedy, Jessie]

Hi Folks

In general we agree with Gregor regarding email versus Wikis. Email is good to give quick responses, to know when changes or new proposals are being made rather than having to go and check but in terms of colating the knowledge I'm not sure htey are os good. Having said that Wikis can be complicated and do need good editing to reamin accessible to those not contributing on a regualar basis.

It was good to see that so many people are still interested in TCS/LC and it is great that we now have Roger on board to help progress the development for GBIF and thereby successful bringing together of TCS and LC.

In response to Donald's document - we've annotated the document (an email wiki ;-) ) - Please find attached our comments using tracking in Word. 


Looking forward to getting some agreement and progress on the standards.....

Jessie and Robert.



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gregor Hagedorn [mailto:G.Hagedorn at BBA.DE]
>Sent: 01 March 2005 11:04
>To: Richard Pyle; Nozomi Ytow; dhobern at gbif.org; G.Hagedorn at BBA.DE;
>franz at nceas.ucsb.edu; Kennedy, Jessie; CooperJ at landcareresearch.co.nz;
>ghw at anbg.gov.au; lblaine at atcc.org; p.kirk at CABI.ORG; bti at dsmz.de;
>garrity at msu.edu; Kukla, Robert; C.lyal at nhm.ac.uk; yjong at science.uva.nl;
>weitzman at si.edu; rlmoe at uclink4.berkeley.edu; cwilson at usgs.gov;
>sblum at CalAcademy.org; seek-taxon at ecoinformatics.org;
>S.Hinchcliffe at kew.org; sci.staff at gbif.org; ict.staff at gbif.org;
>roger at hyam.net; gbif-dadi at roles.circa.gbif.net;
>gbif-ecat at roles.circa.gbif.net; Matt Jones
>Subject: RE: [SEEK-Taxon] RE: GBIF and TCS-LC for data exchange
>
>
>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)
>Königin-Luise-Str. 19           Tel: +49-30-8304-2220
>14195 Berlin, Germany           Fax: +49-30-8304-2203
>
>
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