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

[Lynn Kutner]

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

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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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