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

[Quentin Groom]

I imagine marine people are very happy with WoRMS, it is a very rich
source, but it exists in its own marine bubble with only implicit links
out. How wonderful it would be if all the people it mentions were
disambiguated (authors, authorities, editors), because then it could
really take a strong place in the biodiversity informatics landscape, not
just the marine section of it.
Quentin





On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 11:54, Roderic Page via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
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