[Taxacom] Catalogue of Life User Survey Open

[John Grehan]

"It seems" indicates that Raymond really does not know with respect to his
assertion. In the absence of not knowing to make the expression of such
assertions very questionable ethics - certainly distasteful. And if the
imputation is incorrect it would seem to be libelous or defamatory to
Wuster. Either way, all Raymond is managing to do is to give me the
impression that Raymond is quite a nasty nice person.

John Grehan


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Raymond Hoser - The Snakeman <
viper007 at live.com.au> wrote:

> OK, I looked at the reptile lists and they were woeful.
> Seems to me that the taxonomic vandal Wuster has been at someone's ear and
> ensured about 1,000 reptile species, subspecies and genera are not listed!
>  Not a good result considering this represents about 1 in 10 of the lot!
>
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> > From: r.l.matthias at reading.ac.uk
> > To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:55:29 +0000
> > Subject: [Taxacom] Catalogue of Life User Survey Open
> >
> > To learn more about external uses the Catalogue of Life is running a
> very short online anonymised User Survey until the end of September. If you
> have utilised any of our services please take a few minutes to answer the
> questions at the following link. Your feedback can help guide future
> development and improvements and build a resource that services the needs
> of all our different user communities.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/reading/colusersurvey
> >
> >
> >
> > The Catalogue of Life is continuing in its efforts to build a
> comprehensive taxonomic inventory of all known species on Earth. The
> Catalogue currently holds over 1.4m species compiled from 135 peer-reviewed
> taxonomic databases run by specialists around the world.
> >
> > Much of the use of the Catalogue is to provide a taxonomic backbone for
> other global data portals and through the i4Life project <
> http://www.i4life.eu/>  it has formed partnerships with IUCN Red Data
> List, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, European Nucleotide
> Archive, Encyclopedia of Life, Barcode of Life initiatives, and Life Watch
> (EDIT), to index their differing species catalogues to a standardised
> Catalogue of Life list.
> >
> > However, it also provides a public interface online at
> www.catalogueoflife.org<http://www.catalogueoflife.org> giving access to
> a great number of individual, institutional and commercial users.
> >
> >
> >
> > Whilst we are aware of many discussions on Taxacom around issues
> presented by the Catalogue of Life (such as the pros and cons of presenting
> a single versus multiple taxonomy to end users), we welcome any reiteration
> of your opinions in our User Survey.
> >
> >
> >
> > We would appreciate help forwarding this link to anyone you know who may
> have an interest in the services provided by the Catalogue of Life.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your participation.
> >
> > Ryanne Matthias
> > Catalogue of Life Publicity Manager
> > University of Reading, 105 Harborne Building, School of Biological
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