[Taxacom] Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature

[Roderic Page]

Dear Rich,

Glad you like it. I'm a little wary of our community developing yet  
another domain-specific resource, bibliographic space is pretty  
crowded with some increasingly sophisticated and well-resourced tools  
(e.g., Zotero and Mendeley). And we have lots of GUIDs already (DOIs,  
Handles, ISSNs, URLs) that we seem perversely determined not make  use  
of. Open Access is cool, but this won't apply to a great chunk of  
literature for some time. Personally I'm more concerned that it is  
digitised (and has a digital identifier).

Not sure a citation data model helps a great deal. What we need are  
identifiers, and tools to resolve, mint, and discover them. We also  
need to link names to these identifiers.

Regards

Rod

On 8 Oct 2009, at 17:06, Richard Pyle wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
>
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