[Taxacom] globalnames?

[Peter DeVries]

On of the advantages of the Linked Open Data way of doing things is that the
data lives in the cloud and is replicated.
In many cases, you can also download it.

Here is the RDF dump of the TaxonConcept examples.

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept.rdf.tar.gz

<http://lod.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept.rdf.tar.gz>- Pete

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Paul Kirk <p.kirk at cabi.org> wrote:

> Right on Jim ...
>
> We need to ensure that these increasingly digital 'non taxonomic lists
> of taxon names' are hard linked to appropriate digital taxon concepts
> and all the other stuff non taxonomist need to do their jobs. And then
> when things go wrong (the infamous 404) we can point to the lack of
> funding to support taxonomy and we will all get lost of money to prevent
> the 404s ... ;-)
>
> I know ... in my dreams
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Croft
> Sent: 26 September 2009 20:11
> To: dipteryx at freeler.nl
> Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] globalnames?
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:22 PM,  <dipteryx at freeler.nl> wrote:
>  > This rather speaks of a database mentality?
>
> and this is a good thing, yes?  ;)
>
>  > "In texts aimed
> > at non taxonomists (field guides, red data lists, quarantine lists
> > etc)" these "potentially confusing homonyms", if any exist at all,
> > will be so few as not being worth listing (again, that is the whole
> > purpose of nomenclature).
>
> These lists are probably the sorts of taxonomic products that unsettle
> me the most.  They are lists of names purporting to be lists of
> unambiguous and inviolate species entities/concepts but in most cases
> there is no way to connect one with the other, other than to assume they
> are following the prevailing taxonomic wisdom. Which of course might
> change next week.
>
> In our case these lists are part of legislation and thus inherit power
> far greater than the science and semantics behind them.
>
> It is all a bit of a worry...
>
> On the other hand, if the names in question were linked online to a
> documented taxonomy circumscribing the intended concept/entity, which
> was in turn connected to a populated disambiguator, all would be sweet
> and peace and harmony would rule the earth.  :)
>
> jim
>
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