[Zoobank-list] zoobank prototype

[David Patterson]

Geoff

That is an absolutely fair comment.  I am now trying to 
persuade my colleagues that our next priority is a 
'workbench' - an environment that will allow anyone to 
comment on the underlying records; and for a subset of 
them (custodians) to be able to add 'corrections'


Paddy

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:17:58 +1200 (NZST)
  "Geoff Read" <g.read at niwa.co.nz> wrote:
> I have one further comment on the misspellings. One 
>thing uBio NameBank
> and ION/ZooBank* have in common is that they lack advice 
>on how to
> evaluate their results. There is no upfront warning for 
>Joe Public that a
> percentage of these 'names' are simply errors of no 
>significance, and
> there is no help offered on how to resolve the situation 
>when a series of
> variant spellings are presented.
> 
> Actually, adding more interpretation of what taxonomy is 
>all about and
> explaining the basics would be beneficial at both sites.
> 
> In uBio if one digs down a little one does come across a 
>tidbit on
> misspellings, somewhat ironically included under the 
>heading "NameBank
> contains nomenclatural metadata that is not in dispute".
> 
> * currently identical AFAIK, though as to why this is I 
>have no idea.
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
> 
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