[Taxacom] Catalogue of Life User Survey Open

Wed Sep 4 19:04:10 CDT 2013

Yes Rafael, I know how you feel, but just so you know, we have spent more than 40 days in court this year alone! 

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> From: R.Govaerts at kew.org
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:56:17 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Catalogue of Life User Survey Open
> 
> Raymond; That is indeed the most common answer "no time". That global lists of all groups do not exist yet is largely because of "no time" issues. Money and no experts for the group are the other two.
> Paul, a name is of course not a species (or hypothesis) but all names added to a nomenclatural database are accepted species (conceps) as long as nobody publishes anything else on them which is the case for many names. So if theplantlist fills in the gaps with IPNI data then in a lot of instances that is all we know and the protologue is the concept.
> Rafael
> ________________________________________
> From: Raymond Hoser - The Snakeman [viper007 at live.com.au]
> Sent: 04 September 2013 13:11
> To: Rafaël Govaerts; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: RE: [Taxacom] Catalogue of Life User Survey Open
> 
> Rafael, thanks for the offer, but we are currently snowed under with unwanted litigation at the moment so not in a position to fix the database.
> But if you or someone there goes to "www.zoobank.org" and types in the name "Hoser" and then harvests the data from there for nomenclatural acts and then does the same for "Wells", you'll get several hundred missing taxa in one go!  You'll also find a lot of your missing data on the Zoological Record databases, but they tend to run about 6 months late in their indexing of taxonomy publications.
> 
> All the best
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> 
> > From: R.Govaerts at kew.org
> > To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 13:06:01 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Catalogue of Life User Survey Open
> >
> > A common complaint - easily fixed. If data is missing and you have it electronically then the best option is to work with one of the contributers (Nomenclators or regional hubs) or apply to become a contributer yourself.
> > It is only when everyone shares their data that it will become complete.
> > Rafaël
> > ________________________________________
> > From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Raymond Hoser - The Snakeman [viper007 at live.com.au]
> > Sent: 04 September 2013 12:48
> > To: Ryanne Leigh Matthias; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Catalogue of Life User Survey Open
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > Snakebustersâ - Australia's best reptilesâ
> >
> > The only hands-on reptilesâ shows that lets people hold the animalsâ.
> >
> > Reptile partiesâ, events, courses
> > Phones: 9812 3322
> >
> > 0412 777 211
> >
> >
> > > 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.
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> > > http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/reading/colusersurvey
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > Thank you in advance for your participation.
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