[Taxacom] Links to literature pdf's in IPNI[Scanned]

[Paul Kirk]

Index Fungorum already does this for the fungi ... with 18000 names already linked up to page images (jpg) of original descriptions and several thousand more in the pipeline. It's not rocket science. Don't like big (multiple page) pdf's as they are not very good for those on low bandwidth connections. I do like those serving images to provide resolvable URLs to the images (e.g. Cyberliber) rather than via some 'bells and whistles' human interface (e.g. BHL).
 
Paul
www.indexfungorum.org
www.librifungorum.org

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of Maarten Christenhusz
Sent: Fri 08/06/2007 22:26
To: taxacom
Subject: [Taxacom] Links to literature pdf's in IPNI[Scanned]



Paul, this is a great idea, and it should be done in collaboration with IPNI, where the names are databased already. The publication after the name could be a link to the pdf of the original publication. apart from online storage issues this could be done and would be a great aid. The pdf links can also be made to the pdf's provided for free by the journals themselves.
It would make it possible for everyone to have access to the original species description, regardless where you are, or if your institution has a an old library that has sufficient taxonomic literature.

Maarten


From: "Richard Zander" <Richard.Zander at mobot.org>
Well, computers can be used to make lots of neatly printed hard copies,
all or some a little different. We need to identify those situation that
matter, and find a way to conserve them. At some point, say if there are
many or a few egregious problems, it looks like registration or some
other central archive will be necessary.

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Yes, for anybody really committed to "beating the Code" technology offers
ever more opportunity. IIRC there was a move to disallow photocopying,
laserprinting, etc as means of effective publication.

I assume you would favor a central archive that would put digital copies on
the web of all new publications containing nomenclatural novelties? That
does have a certain appeal. In fact an such an archive could be started on a
voluntary basis, with authors contributing .pdf's of their work; if this
proves to work well you might start thinking about making it mandatory.
Paul


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