[Taxacom] A lost world in Wallacea

[Nick Grishin]

Thomas,

>>>> quickly (in a week?) issue an ICZN opinion
> Not possible as this would go against our Constitution.

Yes, I knew that I know next to nothing. Good to learn something!
However, some clarifications on the matter would be desirable.


>>>> clear and unambigous directions (whatever these directions might be) 
>>>> of what to do about supplementary materials going forward.
> We are looking into that. Suggestions are welcome.

A concern could be that some journals or archives may dump their 
supplements as time goes and money runs out.

Therefore, my suggestion is that in order to be available in any sense of 
the word, supplements better be archived with ZooBank. Due to its central 
role that would only grow, ZooBank is destined to become the nomenclature 
powerhouse. And if it goes down, all the nomenclature as we know it would 
go down too. I guess this is life.

If there is some good will, it may be possible to arrange some sort of 
agreements with NCBI, which is (generously) supported by the US Government 
and has 33 years of experince of archiving all sorts of stuff, from DNA 
sequences to papers. They even have and maintain some taxonomy database. 
Could there be some ways of cooperation? As another entity to archive 
something just in case, NCBI may be a good thing. Then there is EMBL in 
Europe, but I am less familiar with that entity. And DDBJ in Japan.

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