[Taxacom] globalnames?

[dipteryx at freeler.nl]

Van: Dean Pentcheff [mailto:pentcheff at gmail.com]
Verzonden: ma 21-9-2009 20:03
 
> Can it be made to work, and work well? Yes: and IPNI is a 
> wonderful example of making it work extremely well.

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The list already existed before there was an IPNI. The book was
published in 1992: http://www.kew.org/data/authors.html,
and even that was not the original effort.
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> Is using informative parts of data as part of their unique key
> _always_ a good strategy? No, I don't think so. Not even usually.

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It looks to me that this basic point was recognized well before 
there were such things as computers, at least for specimens. 
Databases have been kept for a long time on file cards, or in 
an even more 'primitive' form before that.

Paul