Seek Taxon Notes Nov 3

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Taxon Breakout at SEEK All-Hands Meeting 3 Nov 2004

Present: Jim Beach, Nico Franz, Jessie Kennedy, Trevor Paterson, Bob Peet, Xianhua Liu, Dave Vieglais, Dave Thau, Robert Gales, Susan Guach, Joana Trajkova, Gwen Davis, Aimee Stewart

Long term

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

Jim: Is it enough to improve our current products continue our direction?

• JK: need a strong illustration of usefulness of our concept approach - for that we need a lot more data
• Need specifics of promise of improved world for the taxonomists, etc