[Taxacom] Taxacom Digest, Vol 35, Issue 31

[Indy Guide]

cool thank for the info

jay
http://fatbikez.com

On 2/28/09, taxacom-request at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
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> From: Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Taxacom] An open data commons
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> For those interested in free and open source software and such like,
> this data commons project and license,
> http://www.opendatacommons.org/
> and its associated wiki
> http://www.okfn.org/wiki/wg/odol/odc
> might be worth a look.
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> Not sure how or to what extent it might intersect with
> http://creativecommons.org/
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> http://sciencecommons.org/
> which seem to be a bit richer in term of content and specification and
> are getting a reasonable degree of penetration in biodiversity
> applications development  and data management circles.
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> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:44:03 -0700
> From: "Mary Barkworth" <Mary at biology.usu.edu>
> Subject: [Taxacom] Questions re sharing bibliographic resources
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> I am looking for a way to share references with others working on the
> same groups as me. There must be free, open source software out there
> than can be used for this purpose - and people who can comment, on or
> off line, about its pluses and minuses. Please, would you share you
> knowledge. I have been looking at Connotea and it seems to be designed
> for recent publications - those that are on the web. I am looking for
> something, and perhaps Connotea is it, that can also be used for
> publications without a doi. Why the interest?
>
> 1)      To save the time that is currently spent by many people, each
> recording citations that someone else has already saved in one format or
> another.
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> 2)      It would be a great way for those starting work on a group to
> find out about relevant publications, including old publications.
> Clearly links to a web-accessible version would be great, but knowing a
> publication exists is an important step forward.
>
> 3)      It would be a way that people could draw attention to their
> publications, including those that are published in journals that are
> not widely distributed or are in a language other than English
> (providing a title in English as well as the original language would be
> helpful).
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> Ideally, I would like to be able to link to the cited references and/or
> the underlying article in building web pages. For those working on
> grasses, the references cited in the Flora of North America volumes
> online at http://utc.usu.edu/grassbib.html  It also contains some
> additional references. It was posted from Endnote, contains some
> duplicates and many special characters did not survive the migration.
> Rather than spend time editing it, I would like to build a more open
> resource, one that anyone (or possibly members of a group) can edit
> and/or post or link to.
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> Mary
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