Showing posts with label Terminology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terminology. Show all posts

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Finally...reached the end of the tunnel!

We plunged into the revision of taxonomic names about a couple of months back and finally we are out of the tunnel, carrying with us a bundle of relationships that require a little more discussion to decide and fix. I was handling plant names and Lavanya was handling insect names and we are going to share and reflect upon Our Common Problems, one taxonomic name applicable for two different common names, one common name referring to two different taxonomic names and the like.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Virtual tour of Plant biodiversity

Thanks to the Agrovoc Refinement project for it has given me an opportunity to have a virtual tour of the fairer species of nature's creation. Even if I had become a horticulturist as I wished during my childhood days, I wouldn't have been able to grow those many of them. Moreover, for this assignment I don't delve deep into the technical nuances but would be only visiting each of the taxonomic divisions looking for synonyms of common names and scientific names. This makes me feel like a butterfly moving from a bush here and a flower there, lapping up the sweetness of language manifested in the common names of plants.