[Taxacom] Rocket science, not?

[Bob Mesibov]

Just an observation, not a criticism:

I published a new genus (Noteremus) and two new species in it last month in ZooKeys, which is gaily adorned with LSIDs, and thanks to the superb efforts of Richard Pyle and others, you can find the names today in ZooBank. You can't find them through the webpages of ITIS, or the dynamic Catalogue of Life checklist, or uBio. 

By mentioning this here I may have wetted my chances of finding out when they would have naturally gravitated to those aggregators. I can, however, disclose the result of my silent watch on Ginglymodesmus, which I published in Zootaxa in 2005. It's not in Zoobank, or ITIS, or CoL or uBio.

If you Google on Noteremus you get both of my specialist websites (one on Tasmanian multipedes, the other on Australian millipedes in general), ZooBank and ZooKeys. If you try Ginglymodesmus you get my two websites, Zootaxa, a specialist-maintained Photobucket page and an amateur Flickr group on Myriapoda.

I agree with Rod Page that we're not talking about an either/or, and didn't mean to suggest we were. It's a 'both', but bottom-up seems to be growing vigorously while top-down is still working on data standards.
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Dr Robert Mesibov
Honorary Research Associate
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, and
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
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