[Taxacom] bodiversity informatica

[David Patterson]

I very much favour the use of Taxacom for biodiversity 
informatics dialog - for two reasons.

Many of the developments are focussed on the needs of 
taxonomists

Taxonomists have always been the biodiversity information 
managers, and the viability of the community will depend 
on them maintaining that role in the e-world.

David Patterson



On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:38:19 +1300
  Mark Costello <markcost at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello taxacom manager,
> 
> 
> 
> I have been involved in 3 Ocean Biodiversity Informatics 
>conferences and the
> question of a listserv for communication between 
>meetings increasingly
> arises. I am now involved in an international 
>biodiversity informatics
> conference planned for early 2009 and the question again 
>arises.  Related
> lists are the many taxon specifc ones, various project 
>lists, TDWG, and
> taxacom. I just subscribed to taxacom and on reviewing 
>the archive it does
> include a lot of biodiversity informatics emails, and I 
>know many of the
> correspondents have such interests. It also includes 
>taxonomic items (pure
> taxonomy nomenclature, molecular analysis)  that are 
>probably of little
> interest to people involved in biodiversity informatics. 
> 
> 
> 
> I run 3 other listservs (marine biodiversity, sea lice 
>research and control,
> environmental sciences in Ireland) with online archiving 
> and could set up
> one on biodiversity informatics. However, I do not want 
>to duplicate other
> lists.  So my question is whether we promote the use of 
>taxacom for
> biodiversity informatics news and discussions amongst 
>the past and future
> conference delegates rather than form a new list? This 
>may increase taxacom
> subscribers and traffic, but my guess most of the 
>additional traffic will
> interest at least a portion of present members.
> 
> 
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Mark  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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David J Patterson
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