[Taxacom] A lost world in Wallacea

[Donat Agosti]

The general solution to have long term access is to assure that the publishers use an existing repository like Zenodo (in our case the Biodiversity Literature Repository) or Figshare that are specialized, are open, provide metadata in various formats, are not commercial, are sustainable. In the case of BLR/Zenodo, ample metadata can be added so the deposit can be found.
The metadata should include information about what is in the deposit, such as treatments about what taxa.

To run such a repository is complex and cannot simply be done by offering a place to store such files, and is out of the scope of Zoobank.

The power of the taxonomic data is yielded only if it is made accessible, that if access to all the data in the article is made accessible, findable, citable. If you look at the deposit of the bird supplement https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3608758 and all the related items provided, you can see this. The data can be made accessible, whilst the article and probably also the supplement are in this case closed.

A further advantage is, shown by the reuse by GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/3269bae6-36d8-4c4e-a814-cda94b6aeece  which allows even to see, whether a holotype has been provided https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?dataset_key=3269bae6-36d8-4c4e-a814-cda94b6aeece&type_status=HOLOTYPE .

NCBI's taxonomy is updated every night by taxa found in the processing of taxonomic articles done by Plazi. But they only use the names that are also provided by the deposits of genomic data.

With other words, there is a solution (see http://plazi.org/news/beitrag/science-magazine-why-not-be-more-open-liberated-biodiversity-data-as-a-win-win-case/0a59a0abb47d3115a1a98a6d845f8041/) , in fact there are solutions even.

Cheers
Donat




A solution is proposed 

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Thomas,

>>>> quickly (in a week?) issue an ICZN opinion
> Not possible as this would go against our Constitution.

Yes, I knew that I know next to nothing. Good to learn something!
However, some clarifications on the matter would be desirable.


>>>> clear and unambigous directions (whatever these directions might 
>>>> be) of what to do about supplementary materials going forward.
> We are looking into that. Suggestions are welcome.

A concern could be that some journals or archives may dump their supplements as time goes and money runs out.

Therefore, my suggestion is that in order to be available in any sense of the word, supplements better be archived with ZooBank. Due to its central role that would only grow, ZooBank is destined to become the nomenclature powerhouse. And if it goes down, all the nomenclature as we know it would go down too. I guess this is life.

If there is some good will, it may be possible to arrange some sort of agreements with NCBI, which is (generously) supported by the US Government and has 33 years of experince of archiving all sorts of stuff, from DNA sequences to papers. They even have and maintain some taxonomy database.
Could there be some ways of cooperation? As another entity to archive something just in case, NCBI may be a good thing. Then there is EMBL in Europe, but I am less familiar with that entity. And DDBJ in Japan.

n
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