[Taxacom] The Plant List revisited

[Roderic Page]

I've written another blog post regarding the restrictive licensing of  
The Plant List here:

http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-won-plant-list-won-let-me-do-this.html 
  (or http://tinyurl.com/4q7p76l )

I've also created a demo of some of the things that can be done by  
enabling others to build upon The Plant List data

http://iphylo.org/~rpage/theplantlist/

The links between names and publications are very sparse at this stage  
(the video on the blog post gives an indication of what I'd like for  
every name), but I hope to improve on this as time permits.

The more general issue, which I raised earlier on this list, is why a  
major biodiversity project such as The Plant List has chosen to  
effectively prevent anyone doing the things I show on this web site.  
Why must data remain in silos?

Regards

Rod
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Roderic Page
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