[CPN] Electronic publication; companion volume

[T. Michael Keesey]

Good to know progress is being made on Phylonyms. In general, if there
are any newsworthy tidbits appropriate for public release, please pass
them along so that they can be posted to social media. I've seen a few
people conjecture that the PhyloCode is dead because nothing new has
been heard in a while. (Was there supposed to be an ISPN meeting in
2010?)

Kevin's right that the primary purpose of my project, Names on Nodes,
is to automate the application of names to phylogenetic hypotheses.
David is right that it did include a database at one point. However,
it was taking me forever to get the project done precisely because of
that database. Once I admitted to myself that this was a superfluous
component that could be added in later (or, better yet, replaced with
RegNum), I actually got the dang thing done rather quickly. You can
see the public alpha here: http://namesonnodes.org/ (It was presented
at last summer's iEvoBio meeting.)

Nico can say more about RegNum. My understanding is that it is done
and ready to be deployed whenever Phylonyms is published. (I have a
local copy that I was going to try integrating with Names on Nodes,
but unfortunately I have not had the time.)

-- 
T. Michael Keesey
Technical Consultant and Developer, Flex Specialist
Glendale, California
http://tmkeesey.net/