re: PALEONET digest 35

[poulton@xxxxxxxxxx]

It goes without saying these days that the database integration 
initiatives that the Industry Biostrat Managers are undertaking (and 
deserve our great congratulations for) are all going to be compatible with 
existing  international standards (PPDM, etc.) and that they will be the 
subject of great discussion in Washington in June at NAPC. I don't doubt 
that enough discussion is underway to ensure that all is well in terms of 
each initiative that any of us undertake will contribute to the ultimate 
pie in the sky - some internationally searchable grand multidisciplinary, 
multiorganizational accessible by some multi-integrated web-searcher. But 
it is probably worth repeating occasionally: lets not continue to invent 
thousand more small isolated, incompatible data bases in paleo.