[Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive

[Richard Pyle]

First, let's converge on terminology:  Let's call these fragments
"Treatments".  This is not my term, but I'm quite happy to adopt it.
Treatments contain protologues (and I think it's fair to say that all
protologues occur within treatments), but certainly not all treatments are
protologues.

Once we get past the terminology barrier, then let's converge on a common
definition.  It shouldn't be that hard to do. 

But of course, it undoubtedly will be.

Rich

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Croft
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:59 PM
> To: Chris Freeland
> Cc: taxacom
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive
> 
> A converse issue, blogged by Rod Page a few weeks back, is 
> the practice of taxonomists of citing 'fragments' of articles 
> in the form of protologues.  We are in the process of 
> creating and publishing links to pdfs of these 'fragments' as 
> part of our taxonomic indices.
> There seems to be some inherent duplication, and perhaps 
> incompatibility with this practice and I am not sure if it is 
> going to be technically or operationally possible to get 
> around it.  When someone calls or the protologue, we do not 
> want to send them the whole article.  With limited resources 
> we can not afford to scan an store the whole article when all 
> we want is one page of it...
> 
> jim
> 
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Chris Freeland 
> <Chris.Freeland at mobot.org> wrote:
> > A major (valid) criticism of BHL is our lack of 
> article-level access, and this has become our major area of 
> development of late.
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