[Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive

[Mary Barkworth]

I think the argument is partly on how much emphasis do we wish to place
on the automated discovery of information. At this point, my choice
would be to emphasize making the material available with the markup of
literature coming later (if being done by journals now, great (and there
probably needs to be more help provided in enabling smaller journals to
do it - just as there is a need for more help in demonstratinghow to
mark up images etc.). But at having the material available is an
enormous first step.
My shudder comes every time someone says "the community will". It
basically means the task requires specialized knowledge but it is long,
tedious, and unglamorous and paying for it would be complicated and
expensive - so we shall tell people that they should do it as community
service and cite those few individuals who, for reasons of their own,
are doing what we need everyone to do for THIS project. 
Mary



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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Mesibov
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive

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.
-- 
Dr Robert Mesibov
Honorary Research Associate
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, and
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
Home contact: PO Box 101, Penguin, Tasmania, Australia 7316
(03) 64371195; 61 3 64371195
Website: http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/mesibov.html

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