Hi Geoff
I'd like to add on to all the other congratulations that have come through these last few days. You and the other editors are doing an amazing job that has made all of our lives so much easier.
Thank you very much
Carol
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From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu <annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu> On Behalf Of Geoff Read
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 1:18 AM
To: annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu
Subject: RE: [Annelida] congratulations Geoff!
Thanks Nancy,
It’s great to get a response like that. The idea is that we put up the information and explanatory notes, and users can take it as they wish, disagree if they have reason to, and let us know if it is wrong, but most importantly usually only one person needs to do the time-consuming delving into the history and sorting out the anomalies. And everyone, including the editors, benefit if the publications are stored at WoRMS or linked direct to the BHL online pages, and original descriptions can be read at a click away. There’s still a lot more to do, but we are making progress.
I don’t do this alone, but with several current and past editors of particular families, including Harry ten Hove who was there even before Kristian contributed his database, and is still there. I’d also like to make special mention of João Gil, who has made a major contribution across a spectrum of families in the time since he joined in 2013, has got very skilled with working at WoRMS, and is great with finding and linking the literature. We could not keep up with the inflow without him. Thanks João!
For those that don’t know, on Twitter I am @WPolyDb posting for our section of the WoRMS database, retweeting new lit, nice pics, and keeping to wormy topics.
Best wishes,
Geoff
From: Nancy Maciolek [mailto:njmaciolek from gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2018 5:34 a.m.
To: Chris Glasby <chris.glasby from nt.gov.au>
Cc: Geoff Read <Geoffrey.Read from niwa.co.nz>; annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.ed
Subject: Re: [Annelida] congratulations Geoff!
I would like to congratulate Geoff on this award and also thank him enthusiastically for all he has done to significantly upgrade the WoRMS database over the past several years. It is simply amazing to me that we now have links to so many publications embedded in the database, as well as history on some of the name changes, comments on same, and other pieces of information that in the "old days" might have been impossible to ferret out without a great deal of effort. A huge job, well done.
Thank you, Geoff!
best regards,
Nancy
Nancy J. Maciolek
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 10:26 PM, Chris Glasby <chris.glasby from nt.gov.au<mailto:chris.glasby from nt.gov.au>> wrote:
Hats off to our World Polychaeta Database leader.
WoRMS has just announced that Geoff has received an 'Achievement Award' at the 5th World Conference of Marine Biodiversity (Canada, Montreal, 16 May) for the major and very detailed contributions he has made to WoRMS in the past years, and his input & constructive feedback during his time on the Steering Committee.
The announcement also acknowledged his work as the driving force behind The World Polychaeta Database (http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta), his efforts to create a more inclusive online AnnelidaBase (in analogy with MolluscaBase), and for communicating the good work of WoRMS through Twitter.
Great work Geoff!! I think I can say for all that we are all massively appreciative of the work you do to make our online annelid lives easier.
Best, Chris
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