Talk:Taxonomic database

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"Possibly the earliest documented management of taxonomic information in computerised form comprised the taxonomic coding system developed by Richard Swartz et al. at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science for the Biota of Chesapeake Bay and described in a published report in 1972"

Estabrook, G.F., and Brill, R.C. 1969. The theory of the TAXIR accessioner. Math. Biosc. 5, 327–340. http://home.comcast.net/~tolkin.family/taxir1.htm

Mike Dallwitz (talk) 04:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mike, thanks for the info. This system codes specimen attributes, not sure if it is coding the taxonomy though (the intention being - in my world view at least - to cite computer encoding of taxon names / taxonomic placements) - do you think it qualifies?Tony1212 (talk) 06:31, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]