Mauro J. Cavalcanti writes:
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:21:52 -0200 From: "Mauro J. Cavalcanti" maurobio@acd.ufrj.br To: TDWG-SDD@usobi.org Subject: Re: Morphological Data Representation
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What I miss is an integration of the morphological data representation with the representation of the taxonomic hierarchy (that has never been properly dealt with by DELTA) in a single XML format for the purpose of storing and exchanging taxonomic datasets. Gilmour's "Taxonomic Markup Language" (http://www.albany.edu/~gilmr/pubxml/ ) could provide a good start in this direction.
I would appreciate very much any comments in this connection.
My feeling is that taxonomic hierarchy is best got by web applications from services such as ITIS or other web services offering XML. There is a large community of descriptive data consumers, e.g. field naturalists, that find taxonomic hierarchy generally uninteresting. IMO, trying to integrate it with descriptive data actually addresses a small group of applications at a cost of added complexity.