Taxon Orientation or Tools

[Susanne Schulmeister]

How about using links?


 --- christian thompson <cthompson at SEL.BARC.USDA.GOV> schrieb: >
Martin, does remind us that from a general "tools" perspective many
> facsimiles version are already online.
>
> But that does bring up the question of whether we, Systematists,
> should
> merely try to educate our colleagues and users about the diverse set
> of
> tools already available on the web, such as France's Bibliotheque
> Nationale's Gallica site.
>
> OR should we be EXTRACTing the critical information about our group
> (taxon)
> and build taxonomic oriented sites. So, for example, I would go to
> the
> Gallica site (or probably just scan the Smithsonian copies) and get
> all the
> Diptera description from Linnaeus, Fabricius, etc.
>
> My opinion, for what it is worth, which isn't much because no one is
> paying
> me for it, is that we need to build taxonomically oriented site to
> give our
> users, one stop shopping for their information. So, that today when
> one
> revises a taxon they would not only publish the traditional species
> treatments (synonymies, descriptions, etc.), but would also scan the
> original literature as appropriate (and legal).
>
> On Legal, the most critical and difficult to obtain literature for
> the
> average systematist is the OLD literature which is now without
> copy-right.
> Unless, for example, some one does scan it and, thereafter, issues it
> as a
> "new" work, etc. So, it is possible that one could not simply re-use
> some
> one else's scan of an old work which was posted on the WWW.
>
> Cheers
>
> F. Christian Thompson


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Susanne Schulmeister
Institute of Zoology and Anthropology
University of Göttingen, Germany

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