[Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive

[Bob Mesibov]

Donat Agnosti wrote:

"There is also a different conclusion that we should draw: How can we change our prospective publishing system so we do not have these timeconsuming conversion processes. if we add tags to electronic publications, indeed publish XML version with respective schemas involved, then we have all these functionality involved, including links to external resources such as Zoobank, IPNI. etc.

I'm not in favour of 'we' - taxonomists - doing content markup of our own manuscripts, any more than us doing formatting for publication. Isn't that a job for taxonomic publishers? Journals that cooperate with the markup standards regimes should do it for us, and if needed we can vet the markup when we check our proofs. Obscure, small-budget journals that won't do the markup for us will probably also not be interested in e-publishing with any content markup, whether we do it or not.
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Dr Robert Mesibov
Honorary Research Associate
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, and
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
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