[Taxacom] Literature
Joel Hallan
joelhallan at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 5 17:32:25 CDT 2010
What percent of the literature do you cite?
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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen Thorpe
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 4:55 PM
To: gread at actrix.gen.nz
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] WoRMS fixes Kerguelenia ...
Well, Geoff, no doubt WoRMS does have a few tricks of its own, but surely a
HUGE
advantage of Wikispecies is having links to primary literature (whenever
available), as opposed to just citing another database as source?? With more
and
more literature going online (both new and historical), any database that
doesn't index and link to that literature is wasting all our time IMO. In
that
sense, Wikispecies is more like an electronic library (you could get the
"books"
elsewhere, but here they all are classified by taxon relevance) ...
Stephen
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