Taxon WG Conference Call_14 Mar 2005

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March 14

Present:

• Jim Beach, Robert Gales, Aimee Stewart, Bob Peet, Xianhua Liu, Nico Franz, Jessie Kennedy, Susan Gauch

Agenda and Discussion:

We do not yet know if Kate Jones is available for the pre-meeting.

March 21

Present:

• Robert Gales, Aimee Stewart, Bob Peet, Xianhua Liu, Nico Franz, Jessie Kennedy

Kate Jones is available to attend the April 26-27 meeting

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.

Nico: you can learn more about Weakley's 875 pp. volume of plant concepts at http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm

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).

So Weakly is already using SEEK Taxon's terminology (=, <, >) for expressing concept relationships.

Aimee thinks that we should focus on the data for the current use case and talk with Alan at a later time.

Bob - He is a primary user - maybe we invite him Wed, May 4, following the Estes Park meeting and those who are interested can stay to talk with him.

Entire taxon group will be in Colorado for May meeting

Next conference call will be April 19. Kansas will arrange the call, but if system is not working yet, Bob can arrange on short notice.

TCS/LC update - Roger will visit Jessie to attempt a one-schema-fits-all.

TDWG -

• St. Petersburg
• Topics include
• data integration
• biodiversity content
• tools
• who is going?