Hi Steve,<div><br></div><div>I have been lobbying the BHL for this for some time. Most recently in this blog post.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept-blog/2010/8/5/why-linked-open-data-makes-sense-for-biodiversity-informatic.html">http://www.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept-blog/2010/8/5/why-linked-open-data-makes-sense-for-biodiversity-informatic.html</a><br>
</div><div><br>What I have realized is that, for many works that are out of copyright, Google books has already scanned and converted them to PDF. </div><div><br></div><div>You can use these, even extract the relevant PDF pages as long as you keep the Google watermark. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This is what I have done for the Cougar.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>For more recent works you may be able to link to the article PDF. As in this spider example.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.html">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>We also need a URI for to uniquely identify authors and in the absence of a better solution, I have been using, and in some cases creating, entries in Wikipedia which currently has over 5,000 taxonomic author profiles.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This results in usable RDF via DBpedia. As you can see in the RDF in this example.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>And in the Knowledge Base</div><div><<a href="http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2Fv6n7p%23OriginalDescription">http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2Fv6n7p%23OriginalDescription</a> ></div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, I have also been experimenting with this.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/people/sci_people_1700.rdf">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/people/sci_people_1700.rdf</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>About: Carl Linnaeus <a href="http://bit.ly/gLgElf">http://bit.ly/gLgElf</a></div><div><br></div><div>- Pete</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Steve Baskauf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu">steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I was reviewing some of the previous posts on taxon name usages in an<br>
attempt to understand them better. I have learned that the Global Names<br>
Index is an attempt to catalog taxon names and that it is possible to<br>
generate a URI that points to a name there. Is there a parallel effort<br>
to do the same thing for literature references? In other words, if I<br>
want to describe the TNU:<br>
Andropogon virginicus L. sec. Radford et al. (1968)<br>
I think I could find a URI GUID for the name Andropogon virginicus .<br>
But is there some place where I could find a unique identifier, or<br>
better a URL, or best a URI providing RDF/XML for Linnaeus 1753 (the<br>
author and publication for the name) and for Radford et al.1968 (the<br>
author and publication that expresses the usage I'm intending).<br>
<br>
I suppose that this question has previously been answered in the in the<br>
many posts on taxon names, concepts, etc. However, since usually my<br>
brain goes numb and my eyes glaze over in those threads, I probably<br>
missed it.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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