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Your observation is bang on. I have expressed and argued this point of view to our community as well. I'm not sure there is an easy answer. I advocate strongly
by xipho 6y ago
Your observation is bang on. I have expressed and argued this point of view to our community as well. I'm not sure there is an easy answer. I advocate strongly for a system that rewards doing something well, as an expert, and not being asked to do more. I don't want to be asked to design Mars landers, gourmet food (well, that might be fun), flight control systems, car brakes, etc. I do want to have pride and recognition for my hard work.
Tangentially I expressed the frustrations of being asked to do more at a recent meeting. Talk slides for the curious [0]
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- anigbrowl 6y agoI like your TaxonWorks platform. It feels like an important step towards a general empirical research infrastructure, eg the basic framework seems like it might be applicable in numerous non-bio fields, from (say) geology to sociology.
- xipho 6y agoThanks, that's nice to hear. There are certainly generalizations that have arrisen, we're not building this out of thin air but with reference to a lot of work done over decades (semantics, standards, pre-existing tools). It's open source, there is significant infrastructure there that could be grabbed and re-factored or extended to meet other needs. Of course the whole project is also a test of the oft stated, rarely proven "open-source it and people will join/contribute" too ;).