http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/730 "truly pathetic verbiage" Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:12:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/730/comment-page-1#comment-3733 Chris Freeland Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:05:15 +0000 http://www.hyam.net/blog/?p=730#comment-3733 Roger, tho I know you're not picking on eFloras, a project that falls under my management, I would like to describe what's happening behind that page. It's not a static document; it's atomized into a rich data model that breaks these data into the pieces you'd like. This particular web display was done so that the atomized data can be used & referenced in ways which the **VAST** majority of practicing taxonomists are comfortable. They want these web pages (just one way of displaying/consuming data) to look like printed works because that's how they're used to working with these data. We built these UIs 5 years ago based on user needs. However, we've built services on top of these data so that they can be repurposed, with EOL being the biggest (only?) consumer. We can always do better & I'm sure someone out there (Rod Page) will point out how (justifiably) incomplete our attempts here are. I'm in full agreement on your vision and just wanted to describe that we're trying to make these data more reusable in forms like you & others want. Roger, tho I know you’re not picking on eFloras, a project that falls under my management, I would like to describe what’s happening behind that page. It’s not a static document; it’s atomized into a rich data model that breaks these data into the pieces you’d like. This particular web display was done so that the atomized data can be used & referenced in ways which the **VAST** majority of practicing taxonomists are comfortable. They want these web pages (just one way of displaying/consuming data) to look like printed works because that’s how they’re used to working with these data. We built these UIs 5 years ago based on user needs. However, we’ve built services on top of these data so that they can be repurposed, with EOL being the biggest (only?) consumer. We can always do better & I’m sure someone out there (Rod Page) will point out how (justifiably) incomplete our attempts here are. I’m in full agreement on your vision and just wanted to describe that we’re trying to make these data more reusable in forms like you & others want.

]]> http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/730/comment-page-1#comment-3534 #tdwg #biodiv There does seem … — biotweets.org Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:54:52 +0000 http://www.hyam.net/blog/?p=730#comment-3534 [...] #tdwg #biodiv There does seem to be a fundamental disconnect between how species ID’d and sp. desc. http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/730 [...] [...] #tdwg #biodiv There does seem to be a fundamental disconnect between how species ID’d and sp. desc. http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/730 [...]

]]> http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/730/comment-page-1#comment-3158 Matt Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:19:13 +0000 http://www.hyam.net/blog/?p=730#comment-3158 Once again, amen Roger. When do you serve the cool-aid? Once again, amen Roger. When do you serve the cool-aid?

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