[Taxacom] sharing bibliographic resources

Sun Mar 1 12:06:39 CST 2009

All - I spent way too long crafting a delicately worded e-mail responding to Mary's question, highlighting various advantages and disadvantages of commercial software applications and describing the work being carried out by Scratchpads, EOL, and BHL, only to be trumped by the excellent responses by Davids Patterson & Roberts.  Cheers to being concise.

In short, BHL & EOL are planning to build a repeatable system as envisaged by Mary and described by David P., taking cues from the successes (and open source components) of Scratchpads and "labors of love" like Index Fungorum and other groups (Decapoda, Myriapoda, Formis, etc.).  Tech folk from EOL, BHL, NHM, and elsewhere are meeting a week from now to plan out the implementation roadmap, which will be published on the BHL blog at http://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com/, with a mandate to have a functioning system in place by the end of the year.  We'll be opening up our development systems for review and comment, and will certainly be using this list to announce progress.  I would write more but I fear more folk have already responded and rendered this message moot (on a Sunday!).

Chris Freeland
Director, Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden
Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library  

-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of David Patterson
Sent: Sun 3/1/2009 11:36 AM
To: Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: [Taxacom] sharing bibliographic resources

BHL is planning to establish a 'safe haven' article repository for pdfs (I
suggested they call it 'ShelfLife'), which will allow even copyrighted
material to be visible - at least until the copyright holder objects and the
item must be taken down.

BHL will also shift its digitizing priorities to meet the needs of its
users.

That is, if you wish BHL to digitize the content, then let them know which
journals deserve priority attention.  If you are willing to contribute to
the article repository, please scan material to a standard they can be OCR'd
as this will allow them to be indexed by appropriate software.

David Patterson
EOL

-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Kirk
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 2:47 PM
To: Mary Barkworth; Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Cc: David Minter
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Questions re sharing bibliographic resources

Sounds like something the BHL should/could/might be planning to do ... which
would have the advantage that the references are linked to the full text in
human readable and variably accurate machine readable format.

In mycology we have CyberLiber ... ;-)

Paul

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of Mary Barkworth
Sent: Sat 28/02/2009 15:44
To: Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: [Taxacom] Questions re sharing bibliographic resources

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.

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).

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.

Mary

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