[Taxacom] New service for Bacterial & Archaeal names

[Dave Roberts]

Dear all,

here is an interesting development.  In a project called NamesforLife,  
a browser plug-in will provide supplementary information, including a  
name's status.

To quote: "The NamesforLife philosophy is that online annotation must  
be sufficiently authoritative and persistent for other systems to rely  
on them rather than reinvent them. Those services must work not only  
for the ad hoc human user, who after all has fail-safe alternatives,  
but also in third-party applications. NamesforLife identifies service  
objects using the now familiar digital object identifiers (DOIs) and  
makes them reliably citable and reusable."

The one-page article is available here:

http://www.sgm.ac.uk/pubs/micro_today/pdf/021013.pdf

Of course, Bacteria and Archaea have a journal of record, the  
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology <http://ijs.sgmjournals.org 
 >.

Cheers,  Dave
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Dr D.McL. Roberts,        Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5086
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy Project,
Coordinator WorkPackage 6 (Unifying Revisionary Taxonomy),
Dept. Zoology,
The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road,
London        SW7 5BD
Great Britain             Email: dmr at nomencurator.org
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09].
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