[tcs-lc] My comments on the draft

Jerry Cooper cooperj at landcareresearch.co.nz
Fri Mar 18 15:49:32 PST 2005


>For example, nomenclaturalists, ... 
>They interpreted the Name element to be the only way to store
information about names. 

I don't think that. Please don't make assumptions on my behalf.  To
re-state something I have said many times: we require an exchange schema
that allows us to maintain the integrity of nomenclatural data upon
which everything else is, or at least should be, based. 

>What TCS required of the nomenclaturalists was to forgo a precise model
of the
> rules specified in the Codes of Nomenclature regarding names but to
ensure that >they could represent all the data required to follow the
rules to undertake their work 
>and capture data resulting from their work using the schema. 

Sorry, but I am not going to forgo the the precise model of the rules -
that is precisely what I require in my work to maintain the data
integrity of a nomenclator.

>If we model the schema to suit the nomenclaturalists then it will be
biased to their 
>view of the world and won't necessarily suit other users. 

Is this statement really true? ABCD is a complex schema but people pick
and choose the bits appropriate for their domain. Why can't we achieve
the same with an LC bonded into TCS? If we can't then I still think TCS
is a good idea and worth promoting as a standard but maybe it won't
satisfy the needs of the nomenclators and perhaps I will stick with some
form of an LC for my needs (specifically transferring data between
IndexFungorum and the national nomenclatural databases in New Zealand).
I guess I won't know until I try. 

Jerry

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