Thanks for your replies. Sure I don't want to invent the wheel.
Cheers
Wim
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From: Kehan Harman
To: Michel van der Kemp
Cc: wikispecies-l(a)wikipedia.org
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikispecies-l] Matching Wikispecies with Wikikeys
Take a look at
www.identifylife.org - their ultimate aim is to develop such keys with
reusable character sets with an open access kind of policy. Wouldn't want to duplicate
effort!!!
kehan
On 17/09/06, Michel van der Kemp <vanderkemp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Wim,
Interesting idea, although I'm unsure how to incorporate your idea into the
boundaries of a wiki. However, if you want to ellaborate on this new idea you should first
start off at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/ (Meta-wiki), which serves as a coordination for
all the Wikimedia projects, and a place to discuss new ideas. If you want to propose a new
project, then you might want to post here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed .
Kind regards,
Kempm
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All,
Bringing up a database of species is one thing:-|.
But what about setting op two pools of data: Objects on the one hand, and keys on the
other.
For objects I'd say the Wikispecies-I may serve as (one of) the startingpoint, if
objects get extended with properties describing them (e.g. Not just Paris quadrifolia, but
also data on flower, leaves, biometrics…). I explicitly don't refer to them as species
(because then the matching with a key -see below- apparently was already done, and my
suggestion is to draw a line between these two)
For keys I think a whole new Wiki-project needs to be created, e.g. Wikikeys,
consisting of key-engines that can be elaborated by Wiki-users.
So on the one hand we have the collectors (filling Wikispecies, but as far as I'm
concerned it may also apply to stamp-collecters…), on the other hand the classifiers,
developing keys (in Wikikeys) to classify those objects.
And now comes the hard part: For Wikikeys to work it should be construct where the
key-developers enter (sets of) rules (may even be programs) that can evaluate into a
likelyhood of Yes or No. E.g. if item's property flower-colour = Red, offering this
specimen to the Flora-dichotomous-Linnaeus-key will encouter it with a rule on
flower-colour which rules out Paris quadrifolia for 99%
I can elaborate on this but it may be usefull to first stick to this, check how much
sense I made and if there's anybody interested to pick this thread up.
I'm new to wiki, and please let me know if I have to address other people.
Cheers
Wim
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