[Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature

[nigel.robinson at thomsonreuters.com]

Geoff and others,

Right now we are restoring the ION database following a disc corruption which happened at the end of last week. This has meant a total server rebuild. Over the weekend the website was restored and I hope they can complete the process today. At the moment, the website is up but the database is not. Apologies - for any confusion. Now that we have the website available we will post a status message on the homepage if the outage extends beyond the next few hours.

Thanks for your patience.

Nigel

Nigel Robinson
Zoological Record

Thomson Reuters

nigel.robinson at thomsonreuters.com
thomsonreuters.com

-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Read
Sent: 03 December 2011 02:14
To: Stephen Thorpe
Cc: taxacom
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature

Well, can't agree with that. Sometimes yes, but still vital (for what it doesn't have). Often? Really?

But I just wanted to mention that unfortunately ION's internal links as presented for use by the world (Rod, or anybody) seem broken today from where I am.  Whatssup?

eg. http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid57026

"The taxon you are querying for cannot be found, please return to the home page and try searching again."

Nice loop.

Geoff

On Sat, December 3, 2011 2:32 pm, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
> one might also mention that the primary (nomenclatural)?literature is 
> often the least useful for a taxon described long ago. On Wikispecies, 
> we link taxa to all relevant literature (nomenclatural, taxonomic, 
> ecological, phylogenetic, etc.)
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk>
> To: taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Sent: Friday, 2 December 2011 10:03 PM
> Subject: [Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature
>
> 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
>

--
Geoffrey B. Read, Ph.D.
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
gread at actrix.gen.nz


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