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:

And linked from our broader documentation here:

Here's an example, referenced in the documentation, for querying on a monograph/book:

You can also query based on common abbreviations, like Sp. Pl.:

MOBOT's Tropicos uses the OpenURL resolver to link to protologues, as in this example:

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:

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 Freeland | Director, Center for Biodiversity Informatics | Missouri Botanical Garden
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I have been lobbying the BHL for this for some time. Most recently in this blog post.

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.

For more recent works you may be able to link to the article PDF. As in this spider example.

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.

And in the Knowledge Base

That said, I have also been experimenting with this.

About: Carl Linnaeus http://bit.ly/gLgElf

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

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