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All Hands Meeting SMS Notes Nov 04

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+ *** Jessie Kennedy
+ **** SEEK Taxon Scenario
+ **** Goal is to develop the taxon name server
+ **** High-level approach
+ ***** extract information from taxonomic concept providers; and convert to taxonomy transfer schema (TML)
+ ***** "Semantic Mediation System" used to do concept matching/expansion/weighted concepts; leveraged from EML
+ ***** Most focus on Taxonomy Transfer schema
+ **** Names versus concepts problems
+ ***** use concepts instead of names .... decouple concepts from names
+ ***** taxon name: label/word/string
+ ****** used for communicating ideas about organisms or groups of organisms ... meaningless without a definition, but it is used as if it has a clear meaning
+ ****** full scientific name: sci name + author abbreviation [+date]
+ ******* implies a concept: as intended and documented by the original author of then ame
+ ****** vernacular name: scrub history
+ ***** What is a concept?
+ ****** taxon concept: unique name plus definition
+ ******* full sci. name + "according to" (author + date)
+ *******

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