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Seek Taxon Notes Nov 3
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+ Taxon Breakout at SEEK All-Hands Meeting 3 Nov 2004
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+ What is our long term prognosis? Permanency,
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+ Nico: We need an active group of experts
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+ If we were to support research sub project like catfish, tomato:
+ * Need some user interface application that allows authoring, mapping concepts
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+ (visual tool)
+ * What is their motivation, what do they get?
+ ** document legacy of the field
+ ** allow themselves and others to recreate lineage of knowledge
+ ** ready themselves for the future of taxonomy
+ ** gain greater use of their material by greater user community, stimulate
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+ research
+ ** need to streamline process, make their job easier
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+ Could a taxonomist turn this into a publication?
+ * would still do print/traditional publication
+ * how would they get output from db for publication
+ * we have not focused on tools for users yet
+ * must emphasize importance of what they are doing and making this available to
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+ a wider audience
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award 0225676. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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