RARITIES PHONE NUMBER

If a phone number is to be published in field guides, then:

1. It has to have a long half-life [it has to be institutionalised so it can last as long as the field guides]; 2. The information has to be freely available at a point that will last as long as the phone number [be accompanied by a web address where the information will be published].

Ideally a brief notification would also be sent to email groups like birding-aus.

Basically, birders will volunteer information to the system if they are confident that the system will reciprocate. If people want to receive a text message, then of course, they can subscribe to the service.

Regards, Laurie.

On 26/07/2010, at 8:54 PM, Peter Shute wrote:

> I was thinking more along the lines of how birders will get access > to it. We already have the Birdline system which, for all its > faults, isn’t that bad most of the time. > > Are you intending to add it to that system, or have an alternative > one? > > Peter Shute > > > ————————– > Sent using BlackBerry > > ________________________________ > From: Simon Mustoe > To: Peter Shute; cookilaria@yahoo.com ; birding-aus@vicnet.net.au > Sent: Mon Jul 26 20:32:27 2010 > Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Birding-Aus RARITIES PHONE NUMBER > > Peter, > > I guess the answer is, it can go anywhere it needs to. Firstly, we > are talking about rarity information rather than biodiversity data. > So first of all, it would be transposed into Birdo Online with all > the relevant information about location, who found it, images etc. > Secondly, it would end up being reviewed and disseminated into > Wingspan in the quarterly ‘rarity roundup’. Thirdly, it would end up > being captured and used by BARC. I suspect I have missed a number of > other possibilities. > > If the question is about the data in terms of conservation, I will > never have any interest in hoarding data. All the data that is > gathered is stored electronically and can be made available as XML > to anyone who wants it. Setting up an automated feed is easy. Given > that the data isn’t going anywhere, I am not in a hurry to dip my > hands into my pockets and spend another $3000 getting the feeds > developed. And yes, this is the sort of money it costs. However, if > at any point, there is enough value for me … either someone pays > for it, or we get to expand, then I’d make it available in a jiffy. > > Hope that answers the question. > > Regards, > > Simon. > > ________________________________ > Get a new e-mail account with Hotmail – Free. Sign-up now. > > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > ===============================

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