[Taxacom] Taxa, Taxon Names and Globally Unique Identifiers in Perspective - book chapter

[dipteryx at freeler.nl]

1) If you are going to get the details of 'traditional names' wrong then perhaps it is better to avoid going into detail?
2) It looks a little pessimistic to provide a considerable amount of 'acronym soup' and then to conclude that this proves to lead to stagnation (even after it got the cooperation of the "major providers of nomenclatural data").

Paul


Van: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu namens Roger Hyam
Verzonden: vr 7-8-2009 14:20
 
I just posted a draft of a book chapter for an upcoming Systematics  
Association volume on my blog. The volume will be called "Descriptive  
Taxonomy: The Foundation of Biodiversity Research" and published by CUP.

My chapter is called "Taxa, Taxon Names and Globally Unique  
Identifiers in Perspective" and you can read it in draft form here:

http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/526

I'd be grateful for comments and corrections.

Also is the picture really a fox or is it some other kind of dog?  
Perhaps some one could look on the label at Tring.

Many thanks,

Roger



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