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Re: AKA CD

Yes,

Annotations WOULD be a big undertaking, more I think than even the scanning 
and formatting of old JAKs for the CD. That is what I meant about 
increasing the scope of the project immensely. The BOT will discuss first 
the fundamental project concept, and if they want to go ahead, will 
probably form a committee to explore the other nuances. Annotations, if 
they were included, would mostly relate to nomenclature. I can see real 
value to have a note pop up that sp. X is now known as sp. Y. But, as you 
say, that would be a huge job.

Barry

At 03:26 PM 2/9/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>While Barry's idea of annotations to JAKA CD is very good, WHO is going
>to do them? It might turn out to be quite a job!
>
>What does one do, if 2 "authorities" disagree on an annotation? Publish
>both? None?
>
>Such "theoretical" questions must be resolved BEFORE the job is even
>started, because only then will the decisions remain neutral! If the job
>gets to the point where John says "A" and Jack says "B", then all
>decisions will have to accout for the personalities involved -- what a
>mess it's going to be!
>
>Best,
>
>George
>
>
>
>Barry Cooper wrote:
> >
> > I don't think it would be a bad thing to correct obvious spelling mistakes,
> > but changing old names to new and so on would completely destroy the
> > historical value of the old JAKAs. Unfortunately, I don't think we can even
> > change errors in nomenclature that were errors even when they are
> > published. What could be done, although it increases the scope of the
> > project immensely, is to add annotations that pop up on the screen giving
> > information about the current name of the fish. This can be done in
> > Acrobat. People have to realize that old journals are old journals. They
> > have important information in them, but obviously they are not up to date.
> > Some kind of intro on the CDs splash page would cover this. This project
> > still has to be discussed by the BOT so nobody should get excited that it
> > is actually going to happen, or not happen, or about how it
> > is going to be done until we make a decision to do it, or not.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > At 08:57 AM 2/9/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >  >Csinf at aol_com wrote:
> >  > > Mr. Fish,
> >  > > So long as the original text is maintained, I see nothing wrong 
> with an
> >  > > addendum.
> >  > > Allen
> >  > > ---------------
> >  >
> >  >Great,
> >  >that is the major fault of the ACA CD
> >  >There are numerous misspellings, that have been carried over in the 
> scanned
> >  >text and fish names from 20 years ago do not always tie into names today.
> >  >I am all for electronic media to help in the increase of knowledge of our
> >  >little wet buddies
> >  >
> >  >--
> >  >o
> >  >o
> >  >o
> >  ><*{{{{}><
> >  >o
> >  >o
> >  >o
> >  ><%}}}}><
> >
> > Barry J. Cooper, Prof., Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
> > Current address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd.
> > Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)
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Current address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd.
Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)
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