[tcs-lc] ZooBank

[Richard Pyle]

...and the "technical" paper is evidently beyond the draft stage, and
available here:

http://www.iczn.org/new%20ZooBank.htm

Rich

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>
> Attached is the full article I mentioned in my previous post, for
> those who
> don't have online access to Nature.  Here also is an excerpt from an email
> sent this morning from Andrew Polaszek:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> For your information I am attaching the final version of the Nature
> Commentary to be published tomorrow (Thursday 22 September). By the end of
> today, this paper and the associated "Technical Discussion Paper" will be
> available on the ICZN website. Lynn Raw has put the dedicated ZooBank
> discussion site in place as a separate site from the
> long-standing ICZN one,
> and it will be linked from the technical paper. Firstly, my very grateful
> thanks to everyone who helped with both documents -  we have made great
> progress on this initiative over the last months. Secondly, it
> would be very
> helpful for those of you with contacts in the various science media around
> the world to publicise our initiative. The BBC (Radio 4) and the Guardian
> will be broadcasting and printing this story respectively tomorrow, and I
> have had interest from the Times Higher Education Supplement, New York
> Times, and national newspapers in Australia, Switzerland and Brazil. Any
> additional positive publicity that can be engendered during this
> period will
> greatly increase our chances of getting support from the taxonomic
> community, as well as possible financial support to get ZooBank underway,
> and secure the future of the Commission and its work.
>