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

[bti at dsmz.de]

..or more pressing than they were 15 years ago, at least in those  
areas where solutions were not sought 30 years ago ;-). Even then new  
technologies also require that we keep up to date.
Brian


Quoting Richard Pyle <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bti at dsmz.de [mailto:bti at dsmz.de]
> Sent: Tue 4/08/2009 9:25 PM
> 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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