[Taxacom] PDF request

[Dave Roberts]

Dear Lisong,

unfortunately the British Ecological Society (BES) don't make their  
bulletin available electronically.  The text of the article is  
available at

http://www.e-taxonomy.eu/node/648

to which Stephen referred.  The HTML was made from the same file as  
published, so please use the BES citation if you wish to quote it.

The quote to which Stephen refers is simply an observation on the  
frequency of descriptive taxonomists either presenting or defending  
the plethora of initiatives in the field of biodiversity informatics.   
Here we draw a distinction with bioinformatics, dominated by molecular  
biologists, precisely because biodiversity informatics cares about  
morphology and more particularly about nomenclature.

The article was published in the Bulletin of the British Ecological  
Society and was basically an appeal that sprang from a coffee-time  
conversation at eBiosphere with an ecologist lamenting the rather low  
representation of ecologists and the other essential disciplines that  
Fabian mentions in his response.  EDIT is very keen to see taxonomy  
integrated into other activities and not to see it become a cul-de-sac  
discipline.  Our view is that we need to mobilise the data that  
taxonomists use and, wherever possible, integrate those resources into  
forms that other disciplines need. Taxonomic output is often of  
limited use outside taxonomy itself (= cul-de-sac).

So we want to encourage use of use wikispecies, wikipedia, EoL,  
Scratchpads, GBIF and any of the other projects that are making  
taxonomic products accessible.  We particularly want to see them  
dynamically integrated into other products like ecology, climate  
change, land-use, epidemiology and so on, for whom taxonomy is not a  
goal in itself.

Cheers,  Dave
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On 23 Aug 2010, at 04:06, Lisong Wang wrote:

> Hi, I am looking for a PDF paper, Tillier S. (2009) Biodiversity  
> Informatics. What's in it for us? Bulletin of the British Ecological  
> Society 2009 40(3): 39-42.
>
> Best regards,
>
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