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

Mon Jun 11 04:28:50 CDT 2007

Another aspect of this problem is adding links to literature (PDFs,  
DOIs, etc.) to existing online bibliographies. David Shorthouse  
documents some recent work he and I have been doing to make this  
simpler. See http://ispiders.blogspot.com/2007/06/gimme-that- 
scientific-paper.html for details.

Regards

Rod

On 11 Jun 2007, at 10:12, Paul van Rijckevorsel wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --------
>   From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of Paul van  
> Rijckevorsel
>   Sent: Sun 10/06/2007 19:13
>   To: taxacom
>   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.
>
>   ***
>   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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