[seek-taxon] FW: Observation WG - materials for your review (due Oct 26, 2005)

[Robert K. Peet]

Hi Lynn,

I too expect the Biotics concept model to be compatable with TCS.  Recall 
that the original Biotics data model for concepts was developed by Steve 
Taswell at exactly the same time as I developed the concept data model for 
VegBank, and we exchanged ideas rather frequently.  Subsequently Maggie 
Woo of NatureServe and Mike Lee of VegBank have developed a protocol to 
port Biotics community concept data into VegBank.  Compatability with the 
VegBank model and the Biotics model were considered in Jessie Kennedy's 
development of the TCS standard.  You may not support all of TCS, but you 
can use it to exchange data fields you care about.  In the interest of 
compatability, it would be ideal (both for NatureServe and VegBank) if you 
could use some of the Moore Foundation funding to develop the capability 
to port TCS compliant XML directly into and out of Biotics.

Best,
Bob


On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Lynn Kutner wrote:

> Bob -
>
> Thank you so much for taking the time to provide very thoughtful and 
> helpful notes on our evolving observation standard work. I'll be passing 
> your email & writeup on to the rest of the team.
>
> A couple of quick words of hopefully reassurance - identification 
> information is a top priority for NatureServe data management and we 
> have been managing taxon concept information as a part of our core 
> dataset for several years. I have not yet done a thorough comparison of 
> our data model to the most current taxon concept standard proposed to 
> TDWG, but think that they are compatible. Also - we are definitely 
> taking the approach of incorporating existing standards where relevant 
> but had not yet fleshed out the details, so I greatly appreciate your 
> comments / suggestions for various standards to follow for portions of 
> the observation information.
>
> I'm looking forward to additional feedback and collaboration!
>
> Thanks -
> Lynn
>
> Lynn Kutner
> NatureServe
> www.natureserve.org
> (303) 541-0360
> lynn_kutner at natureserve.org
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Robert K. Peet [mailto:peet at unc.edu]
> Sent: Mon 10/31/2005 10:04 PM
> To: Lynn Kutner
> Cc: SEEK Taxon; Bruce Stein; Don Faber-Langendoen
> Subject: Re: FW: Observation WG - materials for your review (due Oct 26, 2005)
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Lynn,
>
> Thanks for sharing your rough drafts.  Attached find my very preliminary
> comments and suggestions.  More to follow later.
>
> Best,
> Bob
>
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