[Sigia-l] Linnean naming system faces challengers

[Wendy Cown]

It would be easy enough to design if we required all the users of the
website to learn the system.  Linnaeus' work is amazing and as a lover of
biology I admire the simplicity and logic of the system.  But you have to
know the language and system to use it.  

-- 
Wendy Cown
wcown at cloud9.net


Quoting Listera <listera at rcn.com>:

> >     A band of renegade biologists is taking on a mammoth task that
> threatens
> > to upset a status quo that has been unchallenged for almost 250 years.
> Put
> > simply, they want to change the way scientists name every living
> organism on
> > the planet.
> 
> I've cited Linnaeus' efforts as one of the earlier information
> architecture
> exercises in history several times here. Given the circumstances under
> which
> he established his namespace schema, the task remains a monumental
> accomplishment of foresight that stood the test of time. Imagine being
> asked
> to design a web site with a lifecycle expectation of 250 years!
> 
> Ziya
> Nullius in Verba 
> 
> 
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