Re:We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the ...
by anigbrowl on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:29AM
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I like your TaxonWorks platform. It feels like an important step towards a general empirical research infrastructure, eg the basic framework seems like it might be applicable in numerous non-bio fields, from (say) geology to sociology.
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Re:We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the ...
by xipho on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:37AM
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Thanks, that's nice to hear. There are certainly generalizations that have arrisen, we're not building this out of thin air but with reference to a lot of work done over decades (semantics, standards, pre-existing tools). It's open source, there is significant infrastructure there that could be grabbed and re-factored or extended to meet other needs. Of course the whole project is also a test of the oft stated, rarely proven "open-source it and people will join/contribute" too ;).