[Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive

[Jim Croft]

Can we imagine a day when, rather than sitting at the electronic
equivalent of a typewriter with a blank sheet of paper agonizing over
whether to indent or underline, a taxonomist has a widget with a bunch
of boxes to be filled in, a button to press...  and voila!  a
database, a website, an rss feed, an interactive key, a bunch of taxon
profiles, a marked up manuscript for review, a bunch of preprints
ready to go, bits of RDF stuff LSIDs linked all over the place, and a
tweet to brag about it?

Hang on...  we almost had it...  the guy's name was Mike someone...
Mike D...  Mike Dall...  Dell...   Delt...  Deltawi...   nah...  pre
H1N1...  can't remember...  ;)

jim

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Bob Mesibov <mesibov at southcom.com.au> wrote:
> 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
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> School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
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