Bob Wrote:

Kevin's effort, and TDWG's charter, is foremost about data in the service of knowledge, rather than knowledge in the service of users. As such, his effort supports the system builders, especially those with a desire to exchange or federate data or (one hopes) to build extensible systems.

I like this first sentence especially as it sums up the level that TDWG is, or should be on about...

Taxonomists, God bless 'em. You can't live with 'em and you can't live without 'em.

Well, biological information management would certainly be a lot easier if they hadn't got there first... :)

jim