[Taxacom] Journal-to-wiki export and a joint citation mechanism for taxon descriptions

Sat Apr 16 17:43:02 CDT 2011

>There are some topics that need further to be explored, such as handling 
>multiple treatmens per a taxon, or developing a future reputation system on this 
>wiki that will eventually differentiate spelling corrections and similar "small" 
>edits from contributions that actually added original data and updated or 
>otherwise improved existing ones

regarding the second topic above, there is a very simple and elegant solution, 
but, unfortunately, it requires a paradigm shift in the thinking of both 
taxonomists and their employers. The idea is to discontinue the practice of 
crediting whole articles to authors, but instead credit specific  *items of 
information* (and *nomenclatural acts*) to people. To some extent, this is 
already done (e.g. when an item of information in an article is credited to 
somebody else, either from another published article, or pers. comm.), but 
providing information to others "pers. comm." doesn't, in the present way of 
thinking, give any real credit to the information provider in the way that being 
the author of an article (and adding the article to their publication record) 
does ...

Stephen

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From: L Penev <lyubo.penev at gmail.com>
To: Taxa com <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Sun, 17 April, 2011 5:12:57 AM
Subject: [Taxacom] Journal-to-wiki export and a joint citation mechanism for 
taxon descriptions

Over the last few weeks, ZooKeys <http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys>has
published papers whose taxon treatments have been uploaded in wiki format to
Species ID <http://www.species-id.net/>. Now the conversion to wiki has been
automated and was described  in a recently published forum
paper<http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.90.1369>complemented by a
sample
paper <http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.90.1291>, as well as by examples
from previously published  PhytoKeys
<http://www.pensoft.net/journals/phytokeys>papers.

The proposed citation format gives proper credit both to the authors of the
original description and to those who later contributed to the wiki version,
within a combined reference displayed on the top of each wiki taxon page
(see examples below). In addition, the URL addresses of the wiki pages of
the (re-)described taxa are published in the journal paper, directly below
the ZooBank LSIDs, thereby providing a permanent cross-linking between the
journal description and its versioned wiki page.

To demonstrate the range of original sources to which this approach might be
applicable, taxon treatments previously published in PLoS ONE, Zootaxa and
other journals have been uploaded to the wiki from the Plazi Treatment
Repository <http://www.plazi.org/>, including such extracted from the
historical literature (e.g.,  from Grandidier's "Histoire Physique,
Naturelle et Politique de
Madagascar<http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu/HymOnline/reference-full.html?id=6734>",

published in 1891).

We hope that the reconciliation of "static" and "dynamic" versions of a
published treatment on a dedicated wiki page through a single citation
record will increase the citation rates, discovery and exposition of
original descriptions. The proposed workflow and citaion mechanism will also
revive historical treatments on wiki for further updates and revisions.

There are some topics that need further to be explored, such as handling
multiple treatmens per a taxon, or developing a future reputation system on
this wiki that will eventually differentiate spelling corrections and
similar "small" edits from contributions that actually added original data
and updated or otherwise improved existing ones.

Source: ZooKeys (Stoev and Enghoff
2011<http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.90.1291>
)
http://species-id.net/wiki/Sinocallipus
http://species-id.net/wiki/Sinocallipus_catba
http://species-id.net/wiki/Sinocallipus_deharvengi
http://species-id.net/wiki/Sinocallipus_jaegeri
http://species-id.net/wiki/Sinocallipus_simplipodicus
http://species-id.net/wiki/Sinocallipus_steineri
http://species-id.net/wiki/Sinocallipus_thai

Source: ZooKeys (Bantaowong et al.
2011<http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.90.1121>
)
http://species-id.net/wiki/Amynthas_phatubensis
http://species-id.net/wiki/Amynthas_tontong
http://species-id.net/wiki/Amynthas_borealis
http://species-id.net/wiki/Amynthas_srinan

Source: PhytoKeys (Kress et al. 2010<http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.1.658>
)
http://species-id.net/wiki/Larsenianthus
http://species-id.net/wiki/Larsenianthus_wardianus
http://species-id.net/wiki/Larsenianthus_careyanus
http://species-id.net/wiki/Larsenianthus_assamensis
http://species-id.net/wiki/Larsenianthus_arunachalensis

Source: PhytoKeys (Knapp 2010 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.1.659>)
http://species-id.net/wiki/Solanum_kulliwaita
http://species-id.net/wiki/Solanum_dillonii
http://species-id.net/wiki/Solanum_oxapampense
http://species-id.net/wiki/Solanum_verecundum

Source: Plazi Treatment Repository <http://www.plazi.org/>
http://species-id.net/wiki/Nixonia_masneri
http://species-id.net/wiki/Anochetus_boltoni
http://species-id.net/wiki/Formica_herculeana
http://species-id.net/wiki/Camponotus_imitator
http://species-id.net/wiki/Chromis_abyssus
http://species-id.net/wiki/Phrynoponera_pulchella

-- 
Dr Lyubomir Penev
Managing Director
Pensoft Publishers
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1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
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www.pensoft.net
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