[tcs-lc] Next 4 days...

[Kennedy, Jessie]

Rich wrote:

>
>I presume that some version of TCS will be submitted to TDWG on March
>20th -- correct?  
yes - but only in the sense of sending officially the url for the wiki and updating the wiki to make it clear that we will be submitting the TCS for voting this year and that discussionon certain aspects will continue for a while yet - I still have to see if and when there is a final point at which it can't be changed.

>Jessie -- could you provide a short synopsis 
>of what you
>expect that version to look like?  Will it be more like v0.85, 
>or more like
>v0.90? Or maybe v0.88? 

I will have a last discussion session with Robert and make any easy changes - probably based on v0.09b will let you know but I wouldn't worry too much about that.
>Will you make any changes to Kingdom or Rank
>elements? I know there will still be time to make changes 
>during the next
>60(?) days, but you ought to at least grab the low-hanging 
>fruit (i.e., the
>things we all seem to agree on, like changing Kingdom to 
>NomenCode) before
>submitting.

yes we had agreed internally that NomenCode could substitute for Kingdom ages ago it just didn't get reflected in the schema.
as for rank - I know there was mention recently but I didn't have the time to repsond then - sorry. Rank we thought was important for concept as well as name - i.e. it wasn't only a code thing. This was described to us where a taxonomist would want to share and record taxa that hadn't been formally names yet for whatever reason but they might have already decided they had a species or subspecies say. Also when watching the taxonomists at work during the Prometheus project, once they'd made their piles of specimens representing concepts they decided what rank these were and then as a result applied the appropriate rules for naming the concept at that rank based on the types - so for these reasons we included rank at the concept  level this along with our proposition that names could be represented as concepts meant we only needed rank to be modelled there......
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