[Taxacom] progress on globalnames.org

[Jim Croft]

Yesterday $30million was flagged in the Australian budget to enhance
the Atlas of Living Australia, over two (!) years.  I  would be very
surprised indeed if a major push on a list of known taxa and their
names and associated information is not going to be a major part of
this.

Decadal time scales are no really going to cut it with governments who
need something to show within a single electoral cycle.

Two years is totally scary and we are definitely going to have to look
at alternative approaches to sourcing, evaluating and capturing the
data.

jim

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> Am I the only horrified by this timescale?
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> On 12 May 2009, at 16:45, David Patterson wrote:
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>> Expectation management:  How long before this all operational? Best
>> to think
>> decadally.
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> Why can't we have this sooner? Like, *cough*, now? Is it crazy to
> suggest that if all these names were dumped in a wiki, together with
> annotations (e.g., links to literature), any our community set about
> adding/annotating/cleaning, we could have this done rather sooner...?
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> Rod
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