[Taxacom] [tdwg-tag] Zootaxa RSS feed

[Roderic Page]

Dear Tony,

There is overlap with uBio's RSS feeds, which is not surprising (http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=ubioRSS 
  ).

In a sense you can think of my project as doing several things:

1. It provides RSS feeds for databases and journals that don't have  
them (e.g., Zootaxa and IPNI), so these could be consumed by tools  
such as uBio's nomina nova service. For example, the uBio service  
doesn't have a feed for plant names (other than what it can extract  
from journals). It could take my IPNI feeds to gain additional records.

2. It provides feeds that are enriched with links to other resources.  
For example, the IPNI feed has DOIs, where available (and I'm hoping  
to add geotags as well). I'm looking at doing something similar with  
World Register of Marine Species, which has limited bibliographic  
information for names, and when it does, it doesn't use identifiers.

3. For journals that lack RSS feeds the aim is to provide detailed  
bibliographic records (jargon alert -- in RSS 1 format) so that the  
information can imported into bibliographic databases. There are a  
range of RSS feed formats out there. If you are a person viewing them  
in a web browser you won't notice much difference (you get a journal  
title and a link to click on), but under the hood they can differ  
greatly in how useful they are to people like me aggregating  
information.

Hope this helps. In a sense these feeds are a by product of my trying  
to aggregate information. It just seemed that rather than bury them in  
a larger project, I'd make them available so anybody who found them  
useful could play with them, independently of what I do with them.

Regards

Rod





On 8 May 2009, at 23:08, <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> <Tony.Rees at csiro.au>  
wrote:

> Hi Rod,
>
> For the uninitiated (i.e. myself), can you expand on the  
> differences / overlaps between this and the uBio nomina nova  
> service, http://www.ubio.org/rss/index_nov.php and associated RSS  
> feed, which seems to be alive and well (although sometimes off line)?
>
> Regards - Tony Rees
>
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> bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Roderic Page [r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk 
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> Sent: Saturday, 9 May 2009 2:22 AM
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> Cc: Zhi-Qiang Zhang; tdwg-tag at lists.tdwg.org list
> Subject: [tdwg-tag] Zootaxa RSS feed
>
> Dear All,
>
> Continuing on from yesterday's theme of RSS feeds for names, I've
> created a RSS feed for Zootaxa. The feed is in the list on http://bioguid.info/rss
>  , or can be accessed directly here:
>
> http://bioguid.info/rss/zootaxa.php
>
> The feed contains a list of the latest articles published in the
> journal, links to those articles, and a list of names extracted from
> the article title using uBio's findIT tool. If you use a feed reader
> it should be a useful way to keep track of what Zootaxa is publishing.
>
> For the geeks, the RSS feed is RSS 1.0, so you can get bibliographic
> details and uBIO LSIDs from the feed source.
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
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