[Taxacom] Dirty data - WAS: i4Life Call for Pilot Projects

[Richard Zander]

Mike:

As a follow-up to your comment about improvement, Tropicos has indeed
improved. I've been checking publication info by other authors
intensively recently, and notice minor errors maybe once every 200 or
300 entries. So a quick means of feedback is important in a database,
plus someone who will check reports of errors and fix them. 

Richard

 

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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Sadka
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Dirty data - WAS: i4Life Call for Pilot Projects

 
Fair comment Richard.

I didn't intend to suggest that dirty data are always acceptable.  Only
that they should not be universally despised, as they are capable of
improvement.  In an ideal world, one ought to be able to know how much
confidence can be placed in any particular dataset, and use it
accordingly.

Cheerio, Mike