[Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature

[Tony.Rees at csiro.au]

Hi Rod,

I'm interested to see what you have done and as ever, it is very nicely executed. A couple of comments (well, 3 but I cannot count):

(1) This needs eventually to mesh somehow with equivalent work elsewhere, as reflected in recent posts - do you see any possibilities of this and if so, how?

(2) Also needs to mesh with equivalent coordination activities in the "global names" space, as this is the flip side of this particular coin

(3) How does this overlap (or not) with your previous posts on the possible benefits of assembling the "bibliography of life" using Mendeley?

Cheers,

Tony Rees - Hobart

>
>> 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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