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Taxon WG Conference Call_14 Mar 2005

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- Bob wants to invite Alan Wheatley - doing Flora of North Carolina - to the May meeting because he has data that we want and is already treating taxonomic information as concepts/ as we are trying to promote.
+ Bob wants to invite UNC Botany Curator Alan Weakley - author of the "Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia" draft - to the May meeting because he has data that we want and is already treating taxonomic information as concepts as we are trying to promote.
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+ Nico: you can learn more about Weakley's 875 pp. volume of plant concepts at [http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm]
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+ An example of his current annotation is: "Ranunculus arvensis Linnaeus, Corn Crowfoot, Hungerweed. Pd (GA, NC, SC), Mt (NC): fields, disturbed areas; rare, introduced from Europe. April-June. __= RAB, C, FNA, G, GW, K, X, Y; > R. arvensis var. arvensis – RAB; > R. arvensis var. tuberculatus (Augustin de Candolle) Koch -- RAB"__ (where RAB, FNA, X, Y...are previous treatments).
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+ So Weakly is already using SEEK Taxon's terminology (=, <, >) for expressing concept relationships.
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- TCS/LC update - Roger will visit Jessie to attempt a one-schema-fits-all
+ TCS/LC update - Roger will visit Jessie to attempt a one-schema-fits-all.

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