Seek Taxon Notes Nov 3

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Taxon Breakout at SEEK All-Hands Meeting 3 Nov 2004

What is our long term prognosis? Permanency,

Nico: We need an active group of experts

If we were to support research sub project like catfish, tomato:

• Need some user interface application that allows authoring, mapping concepts

(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

research

• need to streamline process, make their job easier

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

a wider audience