[Taxacom] The book that's needed

[Tim Dickinson]

I also agree with Vladimir and Mary, especially Mary's suggestion re the 
online availability of such a resource.  Online there's a greater 
opportunity to update with new information, not to mention provide 
access to current questions and their answers that might be associated 
with individual tools. There's actually quite a tradition of 
well-formatted and useful online user manuals in some communities (e.g. 
R), so that publishing such a review (user meta-manual?) online has many 
precedents. Such manuals can be downloaded and printed by those who like 
hardcopy, or used online, where the links (and animations, videos, 
etc.?) they contain will function.

---TAD.

taxacom-request at mailman.nhm.ku.edu wrote:
>
> Subject:
> Re: [Taxacom] PHYTOTAXA, a new international journal for plant taxonomy
> From:
> "Mary Barkworth" <Mary at biology.usu.edu>
> Date:
> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:07:10 -0600
> To:
> "Vladimir Gusarov" <vladimir.gusarov at nhm.uio.no>, 
> <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
>
> To:
> "Vladimir Gusarov" <vladimir.gusarov at nhm.uio.no>, 
> <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
>
>
> I think Vladimir is correct. Ok. The 
> the problem with a book might be that things change fast but, like you,
> I really like books. And once one has understood how to do things this
> year, perhaps it would be easy to learn the changes that will necessary
> next year. An online video might be another approach. Anyone want to
> tackle it? 
>
> Mary
 
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