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A Wiki page for active SEEK Taxon participants to coordinate manuscript collaborations (shorter term).

  • Most likely collaborators: Beach, Franz, Gauch, Gayles, Jones, Kennedy, Kukla, Liu, Paterson, Peet, Stewart, Thau, Vieglais


Manuscript 1: "Concept Relationships"

  • Current Authors: Franz, Peet
  • Additional Authors: possible, though not planned at the moment
  • Target Outlet: the journal Taxon
  • Current Status: as of September 1 (2004), Franz has completed a first draft which is under revision by Peet; submission planned within September (D. Stone's input still required)
  • Inner Circulation: as of September 1 (2004), most members of the inner SEEK Taxon circle have received the draft through e-mail

  • Target Audience: 1. taxonomists, concept creators, 2. concept providers such as IPNI or ITIS
  • Overview of Topics: analyzes and expands Behrendsohn's (1995) and Koperski et al.'s (2000) views on concepts and their relationships; proposes and exemplifies a more wide-ranging "language" to understand and annotate concept relationships
  • Other Issues and Related Projects: manuscript addresses the challenge of managing and reducing concept inflation; it is a precursor to an implementation of unique IDs for taxonomic concepts
  • Help Needed: nothing urgent, really

  • Latest News: none


Manuscript 2: "Taxonomic Concepts and Unique Digital Identifiers"

  • Current Authors: Franz, Thau
  • Additional Authors: Kennedy already indicated interest, various others should too and will be kept in the loop
  • Target Outlet: the journal Systematic Biology
  • Current Status: as of September 1 (2004), Franz has sent a very coarse outline to Thau, and has started writing; submission planned within 2004
  • Inner Circulation: none

  • Target Audience: 1. (molecular, modern) phylogeneticists & taxonomists, concept creators, "working systematist big shots", 2. concept providers such as GenBank or GBIF (eventually)
  • Overview of Topics: introduces the audience to the ins & outs of digital IDs for on-line intellectual products, then argues for using such IDs in systematics (including molecular phylogenetics), and particularly in combination with taxonomic concepts; outlines the more technical and societal/economic issues related to implementation
  • Other Issues and Related Projects: manuscript has close ties to paper about concept relationships, addresses issues of concept creation vs. concept reuse (how to reduce inflation using unique IDs)
  • Help Needed: suggestions about relevant literature? (print/on-line) on digital IDs, DOIs, LSIDs, etc. would be hepful; input regarding more specific problems will be requested as soon as they come up during the writing; we cannot complete this alone!

  • Latest News: none


Manuscript 3: "Using Concepts in Ecology"

  • Current Authors: Kennedy, Paterson, Kukla...
  • Additional Authors: ? hopefully Peet et al
  • Target Outlet: ? a general ecology journal
  • Current Status: draft in early stages
  • Inner Circulation: ?

  • Target Audience: 1. ecologists, ...
  • Overview of Topics: introduces and advertises the use of concepts (instead of name) to the ecological community...
  • Other Issues and Related Projects: ?
  • Help Needed: ? we should have some real ecological examples where naming is an issue

  • Latest News: ?


Manuscript 4: "An Abstract Model of Taxonomic Concepts to Allow Unconstrained Exchange of Taxonomic Information between Providers and Users"

  • Current Authors: Kennedy, Kukla, Paterson, ...
  • Additional Authors: ?
  • Target Outlet: ? A general Biology review type journal
  • Current Status: ? almost written
  • Inner Circulation: ?

  • Target Audience: 1. TDWG community, Taxonomists and general biologists, especially biodiversity area?...
  • Overview of Topics: describes issues/problems of relying on names, and the idea of taxonomic concepts, describes abstract inclusive model to represent concepts, and the transfer schema implementation of this model - that can cope with various models in taxonomic resources ( IPNI, ITIS, IOPI etc)
  • Other Issues and Related Projects: ?
  • Help Needed: ?

  • Latest News: ?


Manuscript 5: "Introducing Concepts & VegBank"

  • Current Authors: Peet, ...
  • Additional Authors: ?
  • Target Outlet: ?
  • Current Status: ?
  • Inner Circulation: ?

  • Target Audience: 1. potential VegBank users, ...
  • Overview of Topics: see title...
  • Other Issues and Related Projects: ?
  • Help Needed: ?

  • Latest News: ?


Manuscript 6: "A Comparison of Taxonomic Data Models"

  • Current Authors: Xianhua, Peet
  • Additional Authors: hopefully Kennedy et al
  • Target Outlet: ?
  • Current Status: a first draft completed and is waiting for comments from Peet
  • Inner Circulation: ?

  • Target Audience: ?
  • Overview of Topics: A comparison of several taxonomic data models by scope, conceptual design, grain, implementation and application
  • Other Issues and Related Projects: ?
  • Help Needed: ?

  • Latest News: ?


Please feel free to modify the manuscript template as you see fit. Attach an empy template when you add a new manuscript to the list.



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