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

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

Re: [Taxacom] Links to literature pdf's in IPNI[Scanned]Thank you for the additional information. More than 200 000 links is rather awesome!

Although it is not rocket science it does need somebody who actually takes the necessary action. I had not noticed the divide between old pdf's (at Index Fungorum) and new pdf's at MycoBank (with yet more literature at http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/ ?). It all appears to be commendably well organized and should be a good start on whatever the future will bring us (including the further technological steps pointed out by Donat). I hope it gets support, especially by those who hold copyrights.

I will be most interested to see how the effort to introduce obligatory registration for fungi will fare. It is a logical development, following what happened in prokaryotes. 
Paul
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Kirk 
  To: Paul van Rijckevorsel ; taxacom 
  Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:40 PM
  Subject: RE: [Taxacom] Links to literature pdf's in IPNI[Scanned]


  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: "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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