You may not be aware that TDWG has a list devoted to taxonomic literature standards. It would be great if you (and anyone else interested) would join in that discussion ( TDWG Literature standards mailing list tdwg-lit@lists.tdwg.org; sign up at http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-lit_lists.tdwg.org/general ) and add your expertise. The list has only been active since early February, and the complete correspondence is in the archives ( http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-lit_lists.tdwg.org/ ).

Anna L. Weitzman, Ph.D.
Informatics Branch Chief, National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012
Natural History Building, Room W-623, MRC 136
Washington, DC 20013-7012 U.S.A.

phone: (202) 633-0846
fax: (202) 786-3180
email: weitzman@si.edu
INOTAXA - http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/status.cfm
electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana - http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/

>>> rhuber@WDC-MARE.ORG 21-Mar-2006 5:06:30 AM >>>
Dear all,

Below is a short 'survey' which hopefully can help to get an overview
on how bibliographic information currently is stored in your databases.
If you don't like to fill such forms, any other info on your current
literature db is also welcome, just send it to me by email!

The list maybe incomplete, if you think important questions are missing
there just let me and the others know.

I will try to sumarize the results on the wiki later.

best regards, Robert

1) How is your literature database/module organised?
- [ ]Database structure completely normalized
- [ ]Database structure not/incomplete normalized

2) How do you hold your bibliographic information?
- [ ]Complete set of Bib info (Author, Title,Source, Volume, Pages)
- [ ]Incomplete set of Bib info
- [ ]Abbreviations (e.g. Stafleu&Cowan)
- [ ]Bib Info and Abbreviations

- Specify which bibliographic fields you hold in your db:
--[ ]Author(s)
--[ ]Title
--[ ]Source (Journal/Book)
--[ ]Pages
--[ ]Date(s)
--[ ]Volume
--[ ]Issue
--[ ]Series
--[ ]URL/GUID
--[ ]Source Editors
--[ ]Series Editors
--[ ]Other:

3) How do you store author names:
- [ ]Abbreviations (e.g. Brummitt & Powell)
- [ ]Complete Name as String, one author per string
- [ ]Complete Name as String, all authors in one string
- [ ]Last Name, First Name separated

4) How do you store journal names/ other sources
- [ ]Complete Name
- [ ]Abbreviation
- [ ]Both
- [ ]If you hold abbreviations acc. to which standard?

Dr. Robert Huber
WDC-MARE / PANGAEA - www.pangaea.de , www.wdc-mare.org
Stratigraphy.net - www.stratigraphy.net
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