[Zoobank-list] zoobank prototype

[Frank Krell]

"But what has this to do with a register of taxa names?"

Geoff,

at the moment, it has nothing to do with the register, because we don't have the register yet. We have a sort of a precursor (ION) which might be useful in the future as a starting point for retrospective registration (it is easier to evaluate name from a bibliography [ZR] than starting from scratch, isn't it?).
ZooBank will start as a register as soon as the voluntary registration module will be online.
It is quite clear from the discussion that the explaining text on our ZooBank page is inadequate, and we apologize for that. We will work on the text.

Cheers

Frank

Dr Frank-T. Krell
Head, Coleoptera Division
Editor, Systematic Entomology
Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Department of Entomology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7942 5886
Fax +44 (0) 20 7942 5229
f.krell at nhm.ac.uk
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From:	zoobank-list-bounces at afriherp.org on behalf of Geoff Read
Sent:	Wed 13/09/2006 00:28
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Subject:	Re: [Zoobank-list] zoobank prototype

I understand the desire to link all published data to the correct name. 
Someone out there has published something vaguely biological and it 
contains a misspelled name of a species. Obviously this is going to be 
important information, and the species was accurately identified — yeah 
right (after all they carelessly got the name wrong), but I shouldn't 
prejudge it. Iubio and Ion can index it. Absolutely fine by me.

But what has this to do with a register of taxa names? Why should anyone 
  need to devote any time at all to weeding out this rubbish name from 
such a register when there is no logic to it being there? It simply 
doesn't have any of the necessary indicators requiring it to be taken 
seriously by a taxonomist, the most obvious of which would seem to be 
its appearance within a taxonomic context.

On a positive note — I am fairly confident that the author and 'original 
description reference (article title) of animal species newly described 
since 1978 are accurately represented in the current ZooBank search 
interface under the 'name info' tag.

As for the rest of the records ported from ION, well they are a very 
mixed bag indeed. I would like to see them disappear, because they are 
only unverified possibilities of names.


Cheers,

Geoff
-- 
   Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.co.nz>
    http://www.annelida.net/


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