[Taxacom] Occurrence data...

[Walker, Ken]

> Now who is going to want to go the GBIF route, and why?

My final point and I am heading home.

Let's say we (ie the Museum) provides you and 100 others with direct millipede data.  Then suddenly we acquire a well named millipede collection that we put onto our database.  What would be the easier task.

Contact and resend updated datasets to all 100 previous direct data receivers or update the aggregated data source where the user knows that the most up to date source can be downloaded from a single location.

>From a providers point of view, we always want users to come back to a single location to download their required datasets because that way they will always get the most recent updates and fixes at that one location.

It's beer-o-clock! Sy Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Walker, Ken
Sent: Friday, 18 February 2011 5:33 PM
To: Bob Mesibov; TAXACOM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Occurrence data...

Hey Bob,

> but I want to get those data directly from their sources

We get these direct request for data all the time and they then tell us exactly how they want the data formatted and what delimiters to use so that they can directly upload the data into their programs.

And then they question why we would want to charge for such data since it is free on OZCAM or GBIF.

Go figure!

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Mesibov
Sent: Friday, 18 February 2011 5:28 PM
To: TAXACOM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Occurrence data...

Hi, Ken.

I think you're missing my point. I can think of a lot of uses for data, but I want to get those data directly from their sources, not from the godawful mess that GBIF has created. That's me as user. Now who is going to want to go the GBIF route, and why?

Regards,
Bob
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Dr Robert Mesibov
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Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, and
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
Home contact: PO Box 101, Penguin, Tasmania, Australia 7316
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