Re: [tdwg-content] Name is species concept thinking

On Jun 10, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Peter DeVries wrote:

i.e. The name is the concept.

No, it's only a label.

Also since there are several name variants for each "species", how do you distinguish which of these nameID's are the same species and which are different?

When you want to compute over taxonomies this will need to be determined through an ontology. That's how we make the distinctions in TTO (Teleost Taxonomy Ontology).

-hilmar