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Web-based taxonomy is the effort by taxonomists to use the World Wide Web in order to create unified, consensus taxonomies of life on Earth.

为了创建统一的、有共识的地球生命分类库

In his 2002 paper on the subject^[1], H. Charles J. Godfray called for the creation of Web-based organisations to collect all the accumulated literature on a taxonomic group into a centralized knowledge base and make this data available through the Web as a unified taxonomy, so that it can be more easily examined and revised. Such a platform would be owned and maintained by a taxonomic working group, governed by an editor or an editorial board. An example of such a platform is FishBase.

H. Charles J. Godfray 在2002年首倡这个概念。 希望通过基于网络的中心数据库，建成统一的、共识的分类库，方便管理和修订。这样一个平台由一个分类工作组负责和维护，由编辑或者编辑委员会管理。 FishBase 就是这样一个平台的范例。

The notion of Web-based consensus taxonomies remains controversial because, as two Australian researchers pointed out^[2], taxonomic names are not fixed but hypotheses, and therefore in constant change.

这个基于Web的共识的分类库的概念仍有争议，正如两位澳大利亚的研究者指出的，分类群名字并非固定的，而是一个假说，所以处于经常的变动之中。

[edit] References

1. ^ Godfray, H.C.J (2002). Challenges for taxonomy. Nature 417: 17-19
2. ^ Thiele, Kevin and David Yeates (2002). "Tension arises from duality at the heart of taxonomy". Nature 419 (419): 337. doi:10.1038/419337a. 

[edit] See also

• Biodiversity Informatics

[edit] External links

• CATE Project
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Species 2000 / ITIS Catalogue of Life