[Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive

[Donat Agosti]

This is exactly what Plazi does, and it can be done in a legal framework
allowing the publication of those treatments.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1756-0500-2-53.pdf

There is a lot to be done to improve the approach, which is from a BHL
perspective to find the articles, then the treatments, and then link them
to names and especially the nomencaltorial acts.

GoldenGate is just one tool that allows that conversion of articles to
semantically enhanced documents including the boundaries of treatments and
links to external resources (eg zoobank, or other relevant databases).
Plazi then takes those documents stores them and provides access to the
treatments  for other operations like EOL (serving SPM) or GBIF (using
TAPIR to serve materials citation).

If all the treatments get an LSID then all of them can be discovered and
easily linked.

I am very glad it ALL or BHL move into this direction: Serving the
literature at a level of atomization that we taxonomists and most other
users want.

Donat


>
> 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-----
>> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>> [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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