Hi Steve,<div><br></div><div>Below is an example of an explanation that was later attributed to you. </div><div><br></div><div>There are several similar examples that I can also track down.</div><div><br></div><div>This is not a conspiracy but a behavior that is very common in human organizations often referred to as cliquishness. <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cliquishness" target="_blank">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cliquishness</a><br>
<br>Over the years I have written emails with suggestions for the Darwin Core, yet only recently was there any mention or reference to there being a standard protocol for doing this.</div><div><br></div><div>And yes I did propose that we have a small group that makes up test cases etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>While thinking about whether to attend the meeting the year I realized that there had been no real progress since last year.</div><div><br></div><div>Which suggests some dysfunctionality, since the public-lod list seems to be able to make real progress via their email list.</div>
<div><br></div><div>After nearly 6 years of arguing against my suggestions to adopt a more semantic approach suddenly there is consensus that this is a good idea and that we should form a group to do it?</div><div><br></div>
<div>Why isn't Bob Morris arguing against changing a standard with "millions of records", like he did with my suggestions?</div><div><br></div><div>Now he is an advocate for the Semantic Web?</div><div><br></div>
<div>So my question is will the new group demonstrate the same dysfunctionality as the tdwg-tag.</div><div><br></div><div>Since several people now seem to now accepted ideas that they previously argued against, I suspect it will also not operate in good faith and I would expect the same kind of errors, omissions and misrepresentations that were seen in the KOS report.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Pete</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter DeVries</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete.devries@gmail.com" target="_blank">pete.devries@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:07 AM<br>Subject: An individual identified to a higher group like Order, is still an instance of a species - just a species that is currently unspecified<br>To: <a href="mailto:tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org" target="_blank">tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org</a><br>
<br><br><br clear="all">What I would recommend is that you treat a specimen that is identified to an order (Perciformes) with something like the following.<div><br></div><div>Species => <font color="#006600">Order Perciformes species undetermined.</font></div>
<div><br></div><div>The individual is still an instance of a species, however that species has yet to be determined.</div><div><br></div><div>What would work best is to have some standard way of writing the green string above.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This would allow the occurrences that are of individuals identified only to the Order Perciformes, to be interpreted as a species that falls somewhere within the Order Perciformes.</div><div><br></div>
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