[Taxacom] Why stability? - Revisited

[Stephen Thorpe]

@Alan Weakley: When you become supreme ruler of the cosmos, THEN you can dictate what other people can or cannot talk about on Taxacom...

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On Sat, 2/5/15, Weakley, Alan <weakley at bio.unc.edu> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Why stability? - Revisited
 To: "Dilrukshan Wijesinghe" <dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com>, "TAXACOM" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Saturday, 2 May, 2015, 11:47 AM
 
 "Aggregators are rubbish".
 "Taxonomists are under citation pressure" to split their
 work into smaller articles.
 
 And I thought we were talking about ways to better
 communicate best taxonomy and unambiguous information about
 the individual units (based closely on cited underlying
 literature) to the diversity of taxonomy-users (including
 ourselves) across generations.
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu]
 On Behalf Of Dilrukshan Wijesinghe
 Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 7:20 PM
 To: TAXACOM
 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Why stability? - Revisited
 
 Rod wrote:
 "I'm not denying that this is valuable, but it frustrates me
 that there is minimal connection to the underlying
 literature. What I see missing from many checklists, and
 aggregators as well, is the ability to drill down to the
 underlying science."
 That's why aggregators are rubbish. The idea that there
 should be one (or a few) sites providing taxonomic
 information on all organisms is ludicrous, yet this seems to
 be the "philosophy" that drives the "aggregator industry".
 Every day we use specialized sources for information on a
 variety of topics that are of importance to us. Obviously,
 that is not seen as a huge problem; in fact, that diversity
 and specialization is understood to be necessary aspect of
 high-quality information.
 Here are some specialized taxonomic websites that are vastly
 more reliable and useful than any aggregator:
 World Spider Catalog
 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/
 
 The Goblin Spider Planetary Biodiversity Inventory http://research.amnh.org/oonopidae/index.php
 
 Pseudoscorpions of the World
 http://museum.wa.gov.au/catalogues-beta/pseudoscorpions
 
 Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the
 world http://www.jumping-spiders.com/index.php
 
 Catalogue of Pholcidae
 http://www.pholcidae.de/
 
 Orthoptera Species File Online
 http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Orthoptera/HomePage.aspx
 
 Cercopoidea Organised On Line
 http://rameau.snv.jussieu.fr/cool/index.php?&lang=en
 
 Coreoidea Species File Online
 http://coreoidea.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Coreoidea/HomePage.aspx
 
 World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod
 Crustaceans http://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/
 
 Global Taxnomic Daabase of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) http://www.gracillariidae.net/
 
 Psocodea Species File Online
 http://psocodea.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Psocodea/HomePage.aspx
 
 Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual (Coleoptera:
 Chrysomelidae) http://culex.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/katalog%20internetowy/index.htm
 
 
 Priyantha
  
 D. P. Wijesinghe
 dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com
   
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