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TaxonWorks is in its infancy. Read the whitepaper (comment on it if you wish) at [1].

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 TaxonWorks is in its infancy. Read the whitepaper (comment on it if you wish) at [http://taxonworks.org].
-Outline for dense paragraph for use by potential collaborators. Here's a first stab.
-•	TaxonWorks, the new standard for taxonomic workbench tools
-•	Why TaxonWorks
-o	stable endowment supported
-o	Unified workbench (specimens, character matrices, keys, publication ready output) concept: Species File, MX, 3i
-o	Software group of Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois
-o	Built in a collaborative Ruby codebase
-o	6 full time staff for development, debugging, hardware maintenance
-o	Meets current data standards (DwC, TDWG…)
-o	Internet based
-o	Global data sharing: CoL, GBIF (DwC-A), ITIS, EoL
-•	Provide MX for short-term use
-•	Migrate to TaxonWorks in 2015