Correct term for collating/summarizing/consolidating/inferring from below

Bryan Heidorn heidorn at ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU
Tue Mar 11 18:27:06 CET 2003


I like all of these.

At 09:57 AM 3/12/03 +1100, Kevin Thiele wrote:
>
>Consider this in the real world. If I have a number of descriptions of
>species, and from them I want to create a genus description, then I would
>collate the genus description from the species descriptions. Compile and
>aggregate would also work, but I think collate works better.
>
>Cheers - k
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gregor Hagedorn" <<mailto:G.Hagedorn at BBA.DE>G.Hagedorn at BBA.DE>
>To: <<mailto:TDWG-SDD at USOBI.ORG>TDWG-SDD at USOBI.ORG>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 4:38 AM
>Subject: Correct term for collating/summarizing/consolidating/inferring
>from below
>
>| (While I am still working on the Paris minutes and related documents,
>| I would like to raise a minor point:)
>|
>| What term should we use for the process of inferring and collecting
>| information from multiple descriptions into a generated description?
>| Bob raised the point that "collation" may be inappropriate or
>| misleading.
>|
>| Please take a look at:
>|
>| <http://160.45.63.11/Projects/TDWG>http://160.45.63.11/Projects/TDWG-
>| SDD/Docs/SDD_P_InferenceCorrectTerm.html
>|
>| and send your comments to the list!
>|
>| thanks, Gregor
>| ----------------------------------------------------------
>| Gregor Hagedorn (<mailto:G.Hagedorn at bba.de>G.Hagedorn at bba.de)
>| Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biosafety
>| Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA)
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>|
>| Often wrong but never in doubt!

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