Taxacom: Ten years and a million links

[Roderic Page]

In a separate attempt to bring a few projects to a conclusion (or at least a milestone) I’ve written up work I’ve been doing to map taxonomic names to persistent identifiers for the literature (DOIs, handles, BHL, Wikidata, etc.). There is a preprint "Ten years and a million links: building a global taxonomic library connecting persistent identifiers for names, publications and people” on BioRxiv https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1101%2F2023.05.29.542697&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C2665a9c401634c57f4a408db6cb660d7%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638223302822575090%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2F3COuswAG1noFxnZsU1AfYB9jczCioUStBEZF9YUNzw%3D&reserved=0 for those similarly obsessed with names and tracking them down in the literature.

There’s also a simple proof of concept app at https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspecies-cite.herokuapp.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C2665a9c401634c57f4a408db6cb660d7%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638223302822575090%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Gl3kEW5NErqIwpa7ZMn%2FsW9J7IvZYKgWUhCvWH8VJLg%3D&reserved=0 that attempts to locate a persistent identifier (and a PDF) for a taxonomic name, based on this work.

Huge gaps as always. I’m struck by both how much and how little taxonomic literature has been digitised.

Regards,

Rod

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Roderic Page
Professor of Taxonomy
School of Biodiversity, One Health, & Veterinary Medicine
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

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