[Taxacom] New Blog Post: Calling Time on Biological Nomencla

[Richard Pyle]

Yes, of course.  My only point was that these issues (and progress thereon) are alive and well, with advancements as recently as a few months ago. 

Rich


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To: Richard Pyle
Cc: dipteryx at freeler.nl; fwelter at gwdg.de; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu; rogerhyam at mac.com
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New Blog Post: Calling Time on Biological Nomencla
 
Hi Rich,
To point 2 - this was a long overdue extension of the work that was  
started under the ICB (International Commission on Bionomenclature),  
which started work in the mid-1990s. These meetings were always  
constructive. Couldn't make it myself due to pressure of work.

Brian


Quoting Richard Pyle <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>:

> Dang!  I *wrote* a long comment, but I guess I failed to click the  
> appropriate sequence of submission confirmations (but I thought I  
> did).
>
> No time to re-write it now, but basically I said these were  
> well-established and -understood issues, and a series of initiatives  
> are addressing them; namely:
>
> 1) The emergence of a common architecture (GNA) that is *NOT* "just  
> another aggregating nomenclator", but rather a (or at least intended  
> to be a) non-partisan architecture for bridging electronic  
> representations of taxon names and concepts via GUIDs (GNUB), plus  
> tools to form such bridges with datasets containing only text-string  
> names (GNI).
>
> 2) A gathering of representatives of three of the major  
> nomenclatural Codes (Bacteria, ICBN, ICZN) following the e-Bisophere  
> meeting, which I found to have a much more encouraging outcome than  
> I would have predicted (in large part oriented in the context of  
> stuff mentioned in #1 above).
>
> Plain-english explanations of all of these are in the works...
>
> TTFN....
>
> Aloha,
> Rich
>
>
> * * *
>
> Roger: I've left a comment on the blog itself.
>
> ***
> Apparently, this did not appear?
>
> Paul van Rijckevorsel
>
>
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