Joel Cracraft

American Museum of Natural History

Chair, Division of Vertebrate ZoologyCurator-in-Charge, Department of OrnithologyAcademic affiliations: RGGS (AMNH), Columbia University (EEEB), CUNY (Graduate Program)

Research interests

Avian phylogenetics Biogeography Speciation analysis Diversification

Ontology interests (the what's out there? kind) Species Homology

1. An ontology consumer As a contributor (taxa, species)

2. Must have ontology/ontologies straight to do science and communicate

3. Tools: not a lot formally (character databases)

4. Roadblocks: ontology itself (few take it seriously, i.e., species), complexiy of phenotype (& homology)

6. Collaborators: avian morphological community

5. Vision: people adopt phylospecies (for Brent) We have an ontology table for phenotypic characters across birds

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