Paleonet: Scientific death-knell of databases?

[Robert Huber]

Dear Christian et al.,

this is a very serious accusation against the WORMS team and  in my opinion
not very fair. The article does provide any prove (e.g. screenshots) that
someone from the technical staff has made such unauthorized changes nor a
statement of the WORMS on this case. The WORMS page lists 3 edits the
oldest from 2005, can you really exclude that the error was not
unintentionally introduced by one of the editors?

best regards,
Robert


On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Christian Emig <brachnet at aliceadsl.fr>
wrote:

> Bonjour,
>
> A freshly issued paper:
> Emig C.C., Bitner M.A. & Álvarez F. (2015). Scientific death-knell against
> databases? Errors induced by database manipulations and its consequences. *Carnets
> Geol.*,15 (16), 231-238.
> http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1516/index.html
>
> As authors of the *World Brachiopoda Database* hosted by WoRMS, we
> decided to publish what may appear as the visible part of an iceberg (!)
> concerning WoRMS as well as many other online databases.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christian C. Emig, Aleksandra Bitner, Fernando Alvarez
>
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