On Sep 23, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin
Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On Sep 23, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
"Human being" is a reference to a species, and should be marked up
as
such on any page which includes it in a biological context.
That's quite a bit of extra metadata -- IIRC the species tree has a
height of about six or seven at its shortest. Is that really
necessary
on EVERY page mentioning a scientific name in a biological context?
No. Who has suggested that it is?
Nobody -- I was unclear on the concept. The answer to the question is
apparently: No.
Could an automated tool be written to, when the text "Homo sapiens"
is
encountered, automatically mark it up into the correct species
microformat?
Yes - any find-and-replace tool can do that.
is Genus Species a fairly unique way of identifying something?
Of course. The whole point of taxonomy is to uniquely name things.
OK, I didn't know that.
Or are there collisions?
I think questions like those will help your case -- sending dozens of
links to this list will not.
Then you'd better ask TC why he asked for them.
I don't think he was asking for them to be posted to the list, but to
be put on the examples page. I hope you're not coming away with the
impression that people are attacking your idea or trying to shoot it
down -- we're just trying to understand the "who, what, where, why,
when, how" of this proposal -- not all of us are experts in Taxonomy
-- evidenced earlier in this email :).
I think the work you've been doing on this and the geo stuff is
interesting -- unfortunately haven't had a chance to use them in my
markup, but I am interested to see where things progress.
-Colin
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