[seek-taxon] Concept data

[Deana Pennington]

We will need to talk about this at the next SEEK-exec call.  This would 
be a major shift in focus, but could be absorbed as a BEAM re-use case 
of the mammal workflow.  I would certainly be interested in working on a 
veg use case - much more "down my alley" than bats or mammals, but that 
would have to be a group decision.  If we picked some plant groups that 
have undergone lots of revision, we could do the same experiment we 
wanted to do with bats.  I think it might be difficult to make use of 
the grasses data that I gathered for the KR/SMS work in this context, 
but let me put some thought into it.

Deana



Aimee Stewart wrote:
> 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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