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

[Paul Kirk]

Thanks for the compliments Paul. There are 237270 links to page images but the majority of these are to (i) the printed listing of the name in various indexes (Index Fungorum, unlike IPNI, still has many records without a bibliographic reference so these links are important whilst we fill in the gaps) or (ii) links to page images from a major compilation of names, published 1882-1920, with verbatim Latin description of about 120000 names ... not the original description but better than nothing. The backend database to manage the images (either hosted locally or from resolvable URLs elsewhere) and the little window for next/previous page took one wet afternoon to put together, test and implement ... not rocket science, as I said.
 
Mycology already has MycoBank (www.mycobank.org) where authors of new names and other nomenclatural novelties are encouraged to submit data and upload pdf's. If 'we' can get enough buy in to this approach and a strong mandate from the next International Mycological Congress (Edinburgh 2010) 'we' are off to the next IBC (2011) with a proposal to make registration obligatory for names of fungi.
 
Paul

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of Paul van Rijckevorsel
Sent: Sun 10/06/2007 19:13
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Links to literature pdf's in IPNI[Scanned]



From: "Paul Kirk" <p.kirk at cabi.org>
> 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.

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That is great! An example to be followed!

Based on a quick check I get the impression that links to a page in a
checklist (Page Image in Published List) are much more common than links to
the original publication (Page Image for Protologue), so I am a little wary
of the 18000 links to "page images (jpg) of original descriptions". ;-) But
a great achievement nonetheless!

How do authors of new names feel about contributing .pdf's (or .jpg's) of
the protologues ?
Paul



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