[Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive

[Donat Agosti]

I don't think people can be told what they have to do in most cases, but
rather would could be done if they do certain things. Exceptions could be
the registration of new names in Zoobank/IPNI/Etc., and that new work
should be discoverable over the Internet. There are also different steps
to be taken, from cataloguing of literature, to scanning, to make them one
or the other way accessible, to prospective publishing.

The world is very diverse, but there are few things that if we work
together would unearth this diversity much more (and save us all a lot of
time because of the reduction of duplicity): a global, shared online
bibliography, a global list of names. This could be used to link to all
the other resources, such as digital objects.

Donat


> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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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
> To: TAXACOM
> 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
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Dr. Donat Agosti
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