Convener

Aaron Wilton (WiltonA@landcareresearchREMOVE-THIS.co.nz)

Purpose

The aim of the Taxon Concept Schema Usability Task group is to promote the understanding and use of TCS. The group is concerned with the documenting and clarifying issues concerning the usage of TCS, and providing best-practices examples of the usage of TCS.

Background

The Taxon Concept Schema (version 1.01) was developed by the Taxon Names and Subgroup and ratified in 2005. Projects are now starting to implement TCS to exchange nomenclatural and concept data, and are encountering issues that decrease the usability of TCS, including clarification of interpretation, schema bugs, and practical limitations of the schema.

Scope

The primary scope of the TCS Usability group includes: Usability of TCS to exchange taxonomic and nomenclatural data. The TCS Usability group will have an active interest in the following areas in order to fully describe the areas within their scope. Publications

Core Members

• Anton Güntsch
• Jessie Kennedy
• Chuck Miller
• Greg Whitbread
• Aaron Wilton

Members:

• Jerry Cooper
• Nozomi "James" Ytow

Clients

Anyone needing to use the Taxon Concept Schema.

Outcomes and Outputs

• Documentation of usage issues with TCS
• Recommendations for the modification of TCS (if required)
• Development of exemplar usage of TCS

Outputs:

• Taxon Concept Schema (TCS):

Strategy

Discussions through mailing lists and wiki.

Resources

-- JessieKennedy - 13 Nov 2006