Delete comment from: SemAnt
Not sure what you mean by authority files. As I see it, there are "names" and, it pains me to use the word, "concepts". uBio has more names than anybody, plus tools for their extraction. They also serve LSIDs, so for me they are the only game in town.
What they don't do is give you the currenly accepted name, nor detailed synonymies. This is what I'd hope to get from the Hymenoptera Name Server. Having multiple LSIDs isn't a huge problem, providing links between them are preserved (i.e., if we know that a name in ITIS is the same as one in HN).
The reality is that any digital object of interest is likely to have more than one identifier. I also think we should avoid thinking of "authority files". I'm not trying to make any claims that this or that name is authoritative. At this stage I just want to link the data.
Lastly, I want this stuff to be as generic as possible, so it can be applied to any group of organisms. That means uBio as the default source of names, and then other sources for more detail, synonymy, etc.
Jul 2, 2006, 7:25:00 PM
Posted to Classification