[Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive

[bti at dsmz.de]

Paul,
In the sense that it is a small step from a formally defined and laid  
out protologue, with clearly defined "areas" to having that data  
extracted into databases, which in turn can give you back the  
information you need that is attached to the GUID, or even link it to  
something else that was generated by another group working on a topic  
that may not appear to be remotely relevant to taxonomy.
Brian

Quoting Paul Kirk <p.kirk at cabi.org>:

> tried to send this comment last night but Taxacom bounced it due  
> banned CABI auto-inserted content - DOH!
> Probably happen again ...
>
> "again we have a focus on this 'page' thing ... we should be getting  
> away from this restrictive two dimensional world of 'ink on pages'  
> even if they are digital representations thereof as fast as  
> possible. Do we really think that preserving the original formatting  
> is important for mobilizing the content?
>
> Just a thought ..."
>
> Jim, I'm with you on this one ... and it was Mike Dialwhizz I think ... ;-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Croft
> Sent: 28 May 2009 15:15
> To: Bob Mesibov
> Cc: TAXACOM
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive
>
> 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
>> 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
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>> Website: http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/mesibov.html
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