[Taxacom] taxonomic names databases

[Stephen Thorpe]

Tony asked "So if LepIndex does not fill the niche (as a block of expert reviewed, re-usable content), I wonder what does..."

Nothing does, that's the problem currently! Data for every taxon does have to be individually compiled at some stage of the process, and it simply hasn't been done yet for many taxa in a robust way. The only way it can be done in our lifetime is to open it up for anyone to create a clearly predefined record for all the information that we want, and to allow annotation for flagging errors. It will take time, but there is little point in propagating unreliable data like LepIndex on a large scale.

Stephen

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On Mon, 22/8/16, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] taxonomic names databases
 To: "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
 Cc: "John Grehan" <calabar.john at gmail.com>, "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Monday, 22 August, 2016, 12:58 PM
 
 Hi Stephen,
 That's a nice site and may prove useful to
 chase down the species in that genus one by one, and
 possibly more... however with 260,000 LepIndex names in Cat.
 of Life (and therefore IRMNG) from 2006, and potentially
 more to be found in the current CoL version, the thought of
 anyone having to sort these out one by one does really
 thrill me... (plus as is usual with such "personal
 interest" projects, the creator of that site warns
 about its dynamic nature as a citable resource, data
 limitations, etc.). So if LepIndex does not fill the niche
 (as a block of expert reviewed, re-usable content), I wonder
 what does...
 Regards - Tony
 Tony
 Rees, New South Wales, Australiahttps://about.me/TonyRees