[Taxacom] Finding your species in Mendeley

[Roderic Page]

Dear Geoff,

Yes, I have a more modest goal - linking names to citations to the digitised literature. I just want to see the name in context (and eventually mine that context for other data). 

Yes, ideally taxonomic information would be published in a structured form and automatically consumed by databases and other services. We are some way from that goal, and changes in current publication processes will still leave the vast majority of described taxa untouched.

Regards

Rod

On 7 Dec 2011, at 08:22, Geoffrey Read wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 

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