[tcs-lc] Taxonomic Product or Taxonomic Data

[Kennedy, Jessie]

Hi Roger
 
I guess we would eventually want to do 2 i.e. 1 and 2 but in the first place doing 1 will aid doing 2 - or resolving any data like that described in 2.
 
Jessie

________________________________

From: tcs-lc-admin at ecoinformatics.org on behalf of Roger Hyam
Sent: Sat 05/03/2005 21:21
To: tcs-lc at ecoinformatics.org
Subject: [tcs-lc] Taxonomic Product or Taxonomic Data



Hi Everyone,

This may seem like quite an high level topic and you will have to excuse
me if this ground has already been covered but I am trying to nail down
the scope of the TCS/LC schema a little more in my own mind and need to
gather opinions on the high level goals.

Are we passing the product of taxonomic research or raw taxonomic data?

Either:

1) We imagine taxonomists doing their work and then publishing the
results using the TCS/LC schema. Basically publishing taxon concepts,
when to use them, what to call them and how they relate, what can and
can't be said about data tagged with different names and concepts etc.
We probably have about this level of coverage in the schema at the moment.

2) We imagine taxonomists publishing everything they do using the
schema. Every specimen examined and what it was identified as. All the
'agents' they know about and the different teams they have worked in and
how their names have been abbreviated and where they have collected etc
etc. The nitty gritty of stuff that would be very useful for some one
producing a monographic revision to have to hand but that an ecologist
or biomedical prospector wouldn't care about at all.

I think that some of the discussions that we are having at the moment
would be resolved if we had a definite policy on which of these two
approaches we were following.

I'd be grateful for peoples thoughts on this. I consider 2 to include 1
so there is no option of saying we want to do both!

Best regards,

Roger






--

==============================================
  Roger Hyam
----------------------------------------------
  Biodiversity Informatics
  Independent Web Development
----------------------------------------------
  http://www.hyam.net  roger at hyam.net
----------------------------------------------
  2 Janefield Rise, Lauder, TD2 6SP, UK.
  T: +44 (0)1578 722782 M: +44 (0)7890 341847
==============================================




This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender.
It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Napier University does not accept liability for any loss
or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the 
University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/ms-tnef
Size: 5809 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/pipermail/tcs-lc/attachments/20050307/717ba09f/attachment.bin