[Taxacom] ZooBank reality check

[Geoff Read]

IMHO — I don't see the current output of searches as relevant to the 
purpose of ZooBank. I would expect the interface, as a purported world 
REGISTER of animal names, would do the necessary winnowing of the source 
data to get those names, and only those.  I particularly want to see the 
new names with an author and date. Perhaps the new combinations. These 
are all tagged as such in Zoo Rec. It would be hugely useful to have 
ZooBank specialise as a quick-reference resource to do that, and only 
that. Probably ZooBank might steer clear of reporting synonymies for now 
since that's subjective and messy. I don't want all the other 
peripheral-mentions, some of which are garbage, and most of which are of 
no taxonomic interest, to be there.

Then when I need the full citation and more info on some of the names I 
can go and use the usual resources, my own and those I might need to pay 
for, which obviously includes Zoological Record.

One can wish.

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   Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.co.nz>
    http://www.annelida.net/