I agree. I've added an issue to challenge case 6 to address this.

6. Remote and local taxon lists a.. remote referencing of hierarchies from master lists e.g. ITIS b.. local definition of hierarchies c.. efficient rearrangement of hierarchies with knowledge changes d.. alternate hierarchies

Cheers - k

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Croft" jrc@ANBG.GOV.AU To: TDWG-SDD@USOBI.ORG Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:15 AM Subject: Re: Document vs. database

| > In DELTA, Lucid etc we express alternate hierarchies in alternate documents. | > Do we need to do better than this? | | Let's stop this line of thought right now... | | build one hierachy of characters that works first, THEN consider how to | manage alternatives... | | maybe... | | jim |