<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I think that the effort to organize information about species has been moving so slowly in part because of it's focus on names. Our goal is to organize information about species, names are just the handle that we use to tag a species.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The efforts would go much more quickly if we create identifiers for species concepts and then point the various names to that identifier.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I did a check via Google Scholar for papers published this year that mention the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Puma concolor</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Felis concolor.</span></i></div>
<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Both of these names for the same species are still being used.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It would make sense to mint global URI for that species concept and then tag all papers, images, observations to that species concept.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As these documents are being processed, more and more information will be tied to that identifier.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Identifiers for "good" species could be created quickly. New observations could start to be tagged with that identifier along with whatever name the recorder would like to use. e.g. Aedes/Ochlerotatus</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">These concepts could be mapped to the GNI data in the following way</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hasNameID</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://globalnames.org/name_strings/3165624"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://globalnames.org/name_strings/3165624</span></a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hasNameID</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://globalnames.org/name_strings/505310"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://globalnames.org/name_strings/505310</span></a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hasNameID</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://globalnames.org/name_strings/10330292"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://globalnames.org/name_strings/10330292</span></a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hasNameID</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://globalnames.org/name_strings/6689244"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://globalnames.org/name_strings/6689244</span></a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hasNameID</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://globalnames.org/name_strings/3169574"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://globalnames.org/name_strings/3169574</span></a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hasNameID</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://globalnames.org/name_strings/10568463"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://globalnames.org/name_strings/10568463</span></a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hasNameID</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://globalnames.org/name_strings/12104361"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://globalnames.org/name_strings/12104361</span></a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hasNameID</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://globalnames.org/name_strings/1758834"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://globalnames.org/name_strings/1758834</span></a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.taxonconcept.org/spcs/v6n7p</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hasNameID</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://globalnames.org/name_strings/11818218"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://globalnames.org/name_strings/11818218</span></a></font></div>
<div><br></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have not had much success getting this idea accepted in a number of these communities.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So I have a proposal. Let my group start making species concept identifiers. If this concept is adopted, I have succeeded in proving my point. If this concept fails, then I am wrong. Either way, we should have an answer by the end of the decade.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Respectfully,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">- Pete</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">P.S. This is no</span>t about changing the system of binomial nomenclature, it is about tying data together so we can start to address the world's problems in a efficient manner. Binomial nomenclature stays. ;-)</div>
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