[Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

In AnimalBase we have linked some 50,000 names of genera and species to
the primary sources digitised at BHL, Gallica or in our own digitisation
project.

http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de

Example:
http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/speciestaxon?id=1974

I like your idea of integrating the digitised original description in an
individual viewer. From AnimalBase you need at least 3 clicks more and you
rely on the other source being online.

Francisco


F. Welter-Schultes
Zoologisches Institut, Berliner Str. 28, D-37073 Goettingen
Phone +49 551 395536, Fax +49 551 395579
http://www.animalbase.org

> Dear All;,
>
> As part of my mantra about linking information together I've started to
> build a database linking taxonomic names to primary literature (animals
> only at this point). The goal is to (a) discover how easy/difficult this
> is, and (b) provide a resource that might be useful.
>
> You can view current progress at: http://iphylo.org/~rpage/itaxon/
>
> For some background see
> http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2011/11/mapping-names-to-literature-closing-in.html
>
> The aim is to link names to the primary literature that published that
> name using, for example, DOIs, Handles, ISBNs, or other identifiers. Where
> the reference is freely available (e.g., in BHL, the French archive
> Gallica,or in a journal that makes PDFs freely available) the reference is
> displayed.
>
> The interface is a bit crude, but I'd welcome suggestions
> feedback/suggestions.
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
>
>
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