[Taxacom] Rocket science, not?

[Dr. David Campbell]

Quoting Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk>:
> Dear Bob,
> This is a frustration that I share. These large projects are failing 
> to keep up with the pace of discovery (something I complained about 
> here http://blog.eol.org/2008/05/29/sos-state-of-observed-species/ ).
> There's no intrinsic reason for this, but I think it reflects the
> fact  that some projects appear to be in stasis (uBio?), and others 
don't have a mechanism for rapidly aggregating information.
> Regards
> Rod

Many of the large projects seem to focus a lot of effort and funding on 
developing data structures, interfaces, etc. while relying largely on 
volunteer effort for the taxonomic end.  Actually funding taxonomy 
might get more progress at that end.  

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
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