[seek-taxon] Archaeological Fauna

[Beach, James H]

Keith: Just a few edits for your proposal.  Look forward to the
possibility.
 
SEEK-Taxon:  More on this in our next call.  Basically this is a
proposed anthropology database project request to NSF that must manage
organism names.
 
Jim
 
 

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James H. Beach
Biodiversity Research Center
University of Kansas
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
T 785 864-4645, F 785 864-5335


 

	We have have had discussions with the NSF BIO/ITR-supported SEEK
Project, specifically the SEEK Taxon Working Group (PI: Jim Beach,
University of Kansas)  regarding the feasibility of a programmatic
interface between the SEEK  Taxonomic concept Object Server database
(the SEEK "TOS") and KADIS.  It seems likely that the taxonomic concepts
we employ could be effectively represented in the  SEEK TOS schema  and
that their  TOS web service could be used by KADIS both to  help
validate source dataset taxonomic  names  and to expand queries that
employ hierarchically organized taxonomic concepts. This collaboration
would avoid a duplicative effort to build an extensive ontology of
taxonomic concepts. The resulting interface would represent a
network-based approach to retrieving distributes sources of taxonomic
data. KADIS would build an extensive data archive of occurrences of
faunal taxa worldwide over thousands of years ,   that would be of value
to the SEEK Taxon Community. SEEK Taxon is interested in pursuing this
collaboration and would support it, including through the support of
meetings with SEEK Taxon staff software developers.

	 

	 

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