[Taxacom] Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature

[Richard Pyle]

Thanks, Rod -- this is great stuff! 

With regard to this comment:

> The point of this exercise is to explore how easy it is to go 
> from articles (such as we might have in bibliographies of taxa, say in
> EndNote) to the corresponding content in BHL. The major 
> limiting factor is access to bibliographies of articles, 
> ideally we'd need fairly complete lists of articles for 
> journals to make significant progress. If anybody has 
> bibliographies (e.g., EndNote files) that have lots of 
> articles from journals scanned by BHL and are willing to 
> share them I'd be happy to try and map them to BHL and make 
> the results available.

We are right now (as in, starting last week, through the end of the
month-ish) contemplating a common data model for literature citations, based
on the work of the TDWG Literature group in conjunction with efforts by
GNA/GNUB and BHL to establish a common "CitationBank", with shared GUIDs and
open access to full content.  The idea (hope?) is to expand the discussion
on the draft citation data model to a broader group of people between now
and the TDWG meeting in early November (please let me know if you want to
participate), then perhaps by TDWG the model will be stable enough to
implement at both BHL and GNUB.

In my opinion, the current lack of a common repository for literature
citations (with broadly shared & implemented GUIDs) is the primary barrier
to populating GNUB and/or cross-linking existing taxonomic/nomenclatural
databases.

Thanks, again, Rod!

Aloha,
Rich