[Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature

[Paul Kirk]

OK ... for the fungi, via Index Fungorum (one click from the name page in IF) we have 74,638 links to the protologue of which 43459 are to 'new taxa' and the remainder are to 'combinations' (sensu ICN; = 'revisions' sensu ICZN).

Paul

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Francisco Welter-Schultes
Sent: 02 December 2011 09:57
To: Roderic Page
Cc: taxacom
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature

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?id74

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
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Roderic Page
> Professor of Taxonomy
> Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
> College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences Graham Kerr Building
> University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
>
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