[Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature

[Roderic Page]

Dear Francisco,

The viewer is pretty crude (although PDFs are in Google Docs, which works pretty well). I plan to use a more fully featured viewer, perhaps along the lines of http://www.documentcloud.org/

It would be nice to pull all these links to literature together in one place so that the user can get what they are looking for quicklly.

Regards

Rod

On 2 Dec 2011, at 09:56, Francisco Welter-Schultes wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> University of Glasgow
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> 

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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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