Ooops, to clarify my very last example, we actually would support "Pallas 1767" if properly parsed: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?aulast=Pallas&date=1767&f... t=xml http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?aulast=Pallas&date=1767&form at=xml
What we don't yet support & need to is linking at article citation level. That's where our newly (quietly) launched CiteBank http://citebank.org comes in, and what we're hoping to receive funding to expand.
Chris
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From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Freeland Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:57 PM To: Peter DeVries; Steve Baskauf Cc: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] GUIDs for publications (usages and names)
Steve, Pete, et al.,
BHL has an OpenURL resolver that can accept a variety of input criteria & return matching records with responses in JSON (with or without callback), XML, HTML, or a direct link. Documentation is here: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurlhelp.aspx
And linked from our broader documentation here: http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Developer+Tools+and+API
Here's an example, referenced in the documentation, for querying on a monograph/book: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?genre=book&title=Manual+of+No rth+American+Diptera&aufirst=Samuel+Wendell&aulast=Williston&publisher=N ew+Haven+:J.T.+Hathaway,&date=1908&spage=16&format=xml
You can also query based on common abbreviations, like Sp. Pl.: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?stitle=Sp.%20Pl.&date=1753&am... rmat=xml
MOBOT's Tropicos uses the OpenURL resolver to link to protologues, as in this example: http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2735114
With Tropicos we have an authority record for each journal or monographic title. We match Tropicos' TitleID to BHL's TitleID & use that as a more direct link to the appropriate reference, but still send collation & other info to get to the appropriate page, as in this link: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?pid=title:626&volume=5&is... &spage=244&date=1830
I know that this is insufficient for zoology & other natural sciences beyond botany, where we need to be able to support citations like "Pallas 1767", which may or may not be preparsed into appropriate fields. A known problem, for sure, and one that we're eager to address, pending funding from NSF.
Chris Chris Freeland | Director, Center for Biodiversity Informatics | Missouri Botanical Garden 4344 Shaw Blvd. | St. Louis, Missouri 63110 | 314.577.9548
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From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Peter DeVries Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:33 PM To: Steve Baskauf Cc: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] GUIDs for publications (usages and names)
Hi Steve,
I have been lobbying the BHL for this for some time. Most recently in this blog post.
http://www.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept-blog/2010/8/5/why-linked-open-d ata-makes-sense-for-biodiversity-informatic.html
What I have realized is that, for many works that are out of copyright, Google books has already scanned and converted them to PDF.
You can use these, even extract the relevant PDF pages as long as you keep the Google watermark.
This is what I have done for the Cougar.
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html
For more recent works you may be able to link to the article PDF. As in this spider example.
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.html
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.
This results in usable RDF via DBpedia. As you can see in the RDF in this example.
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf
And in the Knowledge Base <http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept .org%2Fses%2Fv6n7p%23OriginalDescription >
That said, I have also been experimenting with this.
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/people/sci_people_1700.rdf
About: Carl Linnaeus http://bit.ly/gLgElf
- Pete
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Steve Baskauf steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu wrote:
I was reviewing some of the previous posts on taxon name usages in an attempt to understand them better. I have learned that the Global Names Index is an attempt to catalog taxon names and that it is possible to generate a URI that points to a name there. Is there a parallel effort to do the same thing for literature references? In other words, if I want to describe the TNU: Andropogon virginicus L. sec. Radford et al. (1968) I think I could find a URI GUID for the name Andropogon virginicus . But is there some place where I could find a unique identifier, or better a URL, or best a URI providing RDF/XML for Linnaeus 1753 (the author and publication for the name) and for Radford et al.1968 (the author and publication that expresses the usage I'm intending). I suppose that this question has previously been answered in the in the many posts on taxon names, concepts, etc. However, since usually my brain goes numb and my eyes glaze over in those threads, I probably missed it. Steve -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences postal mail address: VU Station B 351634 Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A. delivery address: 2125 Stevenson Center 1161 21st Ave., S. Nashville, TN 37235 office: 2128 Stevenson Center phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 343-6707 http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu _______________________________________________ tdwg-content mailing list tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content