[Taxacom] Automated monitoring of the taxonomic literature

[Tony Rees]

Hi all,

I think there is a distinction between tools intended for human readers
(such as Google Scholar alerts) and those intended for automated
consumption by other tools or systems (such as Rod's tool), which hopefully
contain machine readable content in a more structured form. Basically the
usefulness of the latter will depend on the availability to find things
that (e.g.) Google Scholar does not, and/or the ability to mark it up
further with tags not present in the original work, that improve
retrievability and cross linkages to other relevant content (common
indexing terms etc.) There may be room for both but the proof of the
pudding will be later!


Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees


On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 at 11:12, Neal Evenhuis via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Hi Rod,
> Call me picky, but I was disillusioned to see a date for an article given
> as 23 November 2021 and then click on it only to find it was a 2017
> article. The date given for the articles should not be the date it was
> scanned or databased or whatever but the date of the publication of article
> (I notice a few publishers do this as well for recently-scanned formerly
> print-only articles that are actually much older than the scanning date
> given). I was looking for more recent articles than I currently get in my
> article alerts and didn't find any (I realize this is in the embryonic
> stages, but still ... I was optimistic).
>
> -Neal
>
>     On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 4:13 PM Roderic Page via Taxacom <
>     taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
>
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > A common theme which comes up when discussing the taxonomic
> literature is
>     > how to keep on top of it all and keep track of recent discoveries in
>     > particular taxonomic groups (e.g., what are the latest papers on
> reptiles).
>     > Some may recall the uBioRSS tool put together by Dave Remsen and
> Patrick
>     > Leary that has sadly been defunct for a few years. Inspired by that
> earlier
>     > work I’ve made a start on doing something similar, which you can see
> at
>     > https://biorss.herokuapp.com
>     >
>     > The goal is to have a tool that enables you to browse the latest
>     > literature, drilling down by taxonomic group and/or country. I’ve
> only just
>     > started populating the underlying database so the number of sources
> is very
>     > limited. There is a blog post that gives some background to the
> project
>     >
> https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2021/11/revisiting-rss-to-monitor-latests.html
>     >
>     > I’d welcome feedback.
>     >
>     > I’m curious as to whether the interface is useful or not. Note that
> you
>     > can get a feed for any view so instead of relying on my interface
> you can
>     > view the feed in any news reader. If you want an RSS feed for
> spiders in
>     > China then you can have that.
>     >
>     > I’d also welcome suggestions for journals to source articles from.
> I’m
>     > adding the obvious suspects (Zootaxa and ZooKeys, Phytotaxa and
> PhytoKeys)
>     > but hope to add others. I’m also looking to add feeds from PubMed and
>     > Google Scholar (e.g., search for “new species”).
>     >
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>     > Rod
>     >
>     >
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