[Taxacom] Finding your species in Mendeley

[Geoffrey Read]

Hi Rod,

Fine.  Tech points Ward's business. I only want to point out that you have
only the bare minimum ION shows you, which is very far from "this record
complete".  You don't seem to have the hierarchy even, just the names, and
no authors. If Thompson Reuters was in the business of creating WoRMS-like
records like that one (not difficult just takes someone a bit of time), we
volunteer database workers could all fold our tents and get back to the
taxonomic coalface (sorry, mixed metaphors there).  Although they wouldn't
be allowing free access, now would they? Perhaps it's good they don't then
(see below). Plus you've matched the doi perfectly to ION's record. Which
is indeed clever.  Of course Thompson Reuters could provide that initially
if they wanted to - but I imagine doing that would adversely affect some
of their middle man services.

I like that ZooKeys is auto loading its new papers into the Species-Id
website. Ideally all taxonomy will be available structured like that, and
auto loadable into WoRMS and there would be little manual work for WoRMS
editors from the new pubs anymore.

Geoff

On Wed, December 7, 2011 7:43 pm, Roderic Page wrote:
> On 7 Dec 2011, at 01:15, Geoffrey Read wrote:

>> http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&idY0097
>
> Nice, but can't resist three comments:
>
> 1. It's great that this record has a DOI, but the same information doesn't
> appear in the metadata for the LSID, which means the only way I could
> extract this information from WoRMS is by screen scraping (yuck)
>
> 2. iTaxon already has this record complete with DOI
> http://iphylo.org/~rpage/itaxon/?search=Notodasus+harrisae
>
> 3. When will map makers learn about red-green colour blindness! I can't
> see the red dot indicating the type locality unless I  zoom in and the
> green background momentarily disappears.