[Zoobank-list] Doug Yanega's proposal

[Robert Mesibov]

I suspect that mandatory registration will be supported by many taxonomists, 
but 'registration = publication' won't. For this reason I expect to see the 
first in place in a few years, while 'registration = publication' will be 
delayed, and may never happen.

However, there are no obstacles whatsoever to setting up a Web-based 
taxonomic journal (with print copies to comply with the Code) of the kind 
Doug Yanega has outlined. If one was set up now, i.e. late 2005 or early 
2006, it will have had its trial run by the time registration arrives. If 
the scheme works, it could then be integrated with ICZN registration.

Perhaps 'Yanegiana' could be started as a subproject of  one of the 
better-funded biodiversity cataloguing efforts. It would need a fair amount 
of seed funding (for hardware) if it attracted a lot of taxonomic business, 
which it no doubt would, if the spectacular success of Zootaxa is anything 
to go by.
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Dr Robert Mesibov
Honorary Research Associate, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
and School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
Home contact: PO Box 101, Penguin, Tasmania, Australia 7316
(03) 6437 1195

Tasmanian Multipedes
http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/zoology/multipedes/mulintro.html
Spatial data basics for Tasmania
http://www.geog.utas.edu.au/censis/locations/index.html
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