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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Today is the official launch of the GBIF funded project to
mark up all the fish, ant and platygasteroid wasps papers published in Zootaxa
using Taxonx, make all the descriptions online accessible at plazi (and
hopefully soon at Zoobank and other sites), and feed all the names into
Zoobank. In return, all the marked up names will be enhanced using LSID fed
from Zoobank or domain specific name servers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Progress can be monitored at <a
href="http://plazi.org:8080/GgSRS/search">http://plazi.org:8080/GgSRS/search</a>
at journal/publisher=”Zootaxa”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The project PI is Zhi-Qiang Zhang at Zootaxa. We expect to
mark up about 300 publications, including ca 600 new and 6.000 old names and
minimally 600 descriptions. Additionally all the names published in any of the
3.600 papers published since 2001 will be entered into Zoobank. It will last
one 18 months.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We appreciate any comments, questions and hope that the
result will not only be content but convince our community to consider making
their own publications machine readable and accessible to the world, and make
links to the treatments from your own thematic Web sites.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dr.
Donat Agosti</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Science Consultant</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Research Associate, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">American</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType>
of Natural History and Naturmuseum der Burgergemeinde <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Bern</st1:City></st1:place></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Email: agosti@amnh.org</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Web: </span></font><a
href="http://antbase.org/"></a><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://antbase.org">http://antbase.org</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Blog: </span></font><font
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href="http://biodivcontext.blogspot.com/"><span lang=DE>http://biodivcontext.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></font><span
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Skype: agostileu</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://antbase.org/agosticv_2003.html">CV</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://antbase.org/agosti_loc_bern.kmz">Current Location</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dalmaziquai 45</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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w:st="on">Bern</st1:City></st1:place></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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