Kirk Paul M.

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    Biological nomenclature terms for facilitating communication in the naming of organisms
    (Pensoft, 2012-05-08) David, John ; Garrity, George M. ; Greuter, Werner ; Hawksworth, David L. ; Jahn, Regine ; Kirk, Paul M. ; McNeill, John ; Michel, Ellinor ; Knapp, Sandra ; Patterson, David J. ; Tindall, Brian J. ; Todd, Jonathan A. ; Tol, Jan van ; Turland, Nicholas J.
    A set of terms recommended for use in facilitating communication in biological nomenclature is presented as a table showing broadly equivalent terms used in the traditional Codes of nomenclature. These terms are intended to help those engaged in naming across organism groups, and are the result of the work of the International Committee on Bionomenclature, whose aim is to promote harmonisation and communication amongst those naming life on Earth.
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    Names are key to the big new biology
    ( 2010-09-20) Patterson, David J. ; Cooper, J. ; Kirk, Paul M. ; Pyle, R. L. ; Remsen, David P.
    Those who seek answers to big, broad questions about biology, especially questions emphasizing the organism (taxonomy, evolution, ecology), will soon benefit from an emerging names-based infrastructure. It will draw on the almost universal association of organism names with biological information to index and interconnect information distributed across the Internet. The result will be a virtual data commons, expanding as further data are shared, allowing biology to become more of a “big science”. Informatics devices will exploit this ‘big new biology’, revitalizing comparative biology with a broad perspective to reveal previously inaccessible trends and discontinuities, so helping us to reveal unfamiliar biological truths. Here, we review the first components of this freely available, participatory, and semantic Global Names Architecture.