[Taxacom] Species Cite: linking scientific names to publications and taxonomists

[Roderic Page]

Hi Lena,

WoRMS is great, and is something that I plan to add to Species-Cite in the future.

From my perspective the thing WoRMS lacks is links to external identifiers for the literature (e.g., DOIs, etc.). This means that the literature is essentially in a database-specific silo 9this is true of most taxonomic databases). Now, for WoRMS users that may be just fine, the database meets their needs, the names and citations they are after are there.

I’d like things to be less siloed such that, for example, I can go from a name in WoRMS to an external identifier for the literature,  to the taxonomists who did the work, and the full text for the paper. And I’d like to do that all in one place.

I think for anyone aggregating data the challenge is to deliver value above and beyond what individual databases can do, otherwise there is little point in aggregating the data in the first place. So I guess the challenge would be to see if aggregating data from WoRMS can create something that adds value on top of what WoRMS itself offers. And of course, any such value would be available to WoRMS to incorporate if the WoRMS editors felt it added something to their database.

Regards,

Rod


On 2 Aug 2021, at 10:37, Elena Kupriyanova <Elena.Kupriyanova at Australian.Museum<mailto:Elena.Kupriyanova at Australian.Museum>> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I am not talking about it for a simple reason -  I did not want to mention that for marine species we already have WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species) http://www.marinespecies.org/index.php
I happen to be one of hundreds of taxonomical editors for this database
Sorry...
Best,
Lena