"Aggregate" when referring to moving shared characteristics up a level in the taxonomy. "Inherit" properties when going down the hierarchy. Does "inherit" carry too much baggage from genetics and programming? It might be good baggage to have. Bryan At 06:38 PM 3/11/03 +0100, you wrote:

(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 ---------------------------------------------------------- Gregor Hagedorn (G.Hagedorn@bba.de) Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biosafety Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) Koenigin-Luise-Str. 19 Tel: +49-30-8304-2220 14195 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49-30-8304-2203

Often wrong but never in doubt!

-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Bryan Heidorn Graduate School of Library and Information Science pheidorn@uiuc.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MC-493 (V)217/ 244-7792 Rm. 221, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820-6212 (F)217/ 244-3302 http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~heidorn Calendar: http://calendar.yahoo.com/pbheidorn Visit the Biobrowser Web site at http://www.biobrowser.org