Message 2004-10-0068: ISPN, CPN, and Companion Volume

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:40:26 -0400

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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:40:26 -0400
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: ISPN, CPN, and Companion Volume

Kevin de Queiroz wrote:

>
>  > I need to get the proposal for the companion volume submitted ve=
ry soon,
>and that won't happen unless I withdraw from this discussion.  Moreo=
ver, the
>entire discussion will be irrelevant, because we won't get the contr=
act,
>there won't be a companion volume, and our movement will be dead in =
the
>water.


David Marjanovic wrote:

>I must say that, if I have understood it correctly (I'm not sure of =
that),
>this is somewhat weird. The meeting in Paris has not brought a resol=
ution to
>any of the problems that were discussed there, neither the Internati=
onal
>Society of Phylogenetic Nomenclature nor the International Commissio=
n on
>Phylogenetic Nomenclature exist yet, but nevertheless the publicatio=
n of the
>companion volume has already advanced so far that it can be threaten=
ed at
>all?

The International Society of Phylogenetic Nomenclature DOES exist.=
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It was inaugurated in Paris and officers were elected.  The CPN will=
=20
come into existence in early March after an election that is open to=
=20
all members of the ISPN.  Everyone who participated in the Paris=20
meeting is automatically a member of the ISPN until the end of this=
=20
calendar year.  Once the Council determines the annual dues, other=
=20
people can join as well (and Paris participants can renew their=20
membership).

Although the preparation of the companion volume hasn't begun, we are=
=20
in the process of negotiating a contract with a publisher.  In the=
=20
U.S. at least, this may be done well before a book is finished, or=
=20
even begun.


>         (The author of the zoological code is the entire Internatio=
nal
>Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. I think we should imitate thi=
s, even
>if only because of the optics.) Different codes differ in regard to=
=20
>how authorship is cited.

The rank-based codes differ in this regard.  The Botanical Code lists=
=20
individual people as editors and is cited as Greuter et al., 2000=
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(which I find appropriate, given that a large amount of work is=20
involved for those individuals, who should therefore receive some=
=20
credit for it).   As was announced in Paris, the editors of the=20
companion volume will be Kevin, Jacques and myself.


Phil


--=20
Philip D. Cantino
Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Environmental and Plant Biology
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701-2979
U.S.A.

Phone: (740) 593-1128; 593-1126
Fax: (740) 593-1130
e-mail: cantino@ohio.edu

  

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