[Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature

[Walker, Ken]

The best place for new ideas to begin is independently on the fringe, fostered by individual intuition and passion. Look at Mendeley - started by 2 PhD students 30 months ago and now has over a million subscribers and below is being suggested for the "bibliography of life".

Meshing and mashing can occur once the new idea as legs and support.

Ken

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On 03/12/2011, at 10:04 AM, "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

> yes, the problem here, as always, is that everybody (Rod in this case) is touting their own pet project to accomplish this enormous task, without giving fair dues to the other projects (such as Wikispecies, tout, tout!), or making any obvious attempts to coordinate/cooperate with these other initiatives. We should be asking, "what can I do to contribute to the task", and not "hey look, I'm doing it, get it here!"
>
> Stephen
>
> PS: No offence Rod! :)
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Tony.Rees at csiro.au" <Tony.Rees at csiro.au>
> To: r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Sent: Saturday, 3 December 2011 11:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature
>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>> 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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