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 -----
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-
| SDD/Docs/SDD_P_InferenceCorrectTerm.html
|
| and send your
comments to the list!
|
| thanks, Gregor
|
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