[seek-taxon] Concept data

[Aimee Stewart]

Hi Bob,

I'm following up on our conversation after your talk, "The Transition to 
Taxon Concepts in a World of Legacy Data" at TDWG.  It's obvious that 
you put a massive effort into creating concepts and relationships 
between them for the flora of the Southeast from many different sources. 

I cc-ed Seek-Taxon, Matt, and Deana because I'm salivating over these data!

You talked about 100,000 concepts and 50,000 concept relationships.  How 
many species does that represent? Genera? Genii?  Matt, I'm wondering if 
we might replace our bat use case with one or more of these species.  
The data has already been input and related, and the bat data would 
still have to be researched, input, and mapped.   Seems like we might be 
able to focus our dwindling resources more effectively if we didn't redo 
this work for a different group.   Are we too far along?  Are there 
other reasons why we should stick with bats?  Bob, are there any 
particularly interesting species you could recommend?  Deana, some time 
ago, we talked about using grasses data that you had for some work with 
KR-SMS.  How could these data fit with those objectives?  Anyone else 
have ideas?

I did not see these data in CVS anywhere - did I overlook it?  At the 
very least, it would be a great workout for the TOS.

Thanks,
Aimee
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